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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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That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
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Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
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The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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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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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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