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The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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To fear love is to fear life.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'
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Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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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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I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
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