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Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
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 is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere only triviality for a moment and then nothing.
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Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
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Do not feel certain of anything.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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