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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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We do not like to be robbed of an enemy we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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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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