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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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