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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
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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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I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
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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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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
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