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The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.
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