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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
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The question of unrealityis a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
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The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.
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