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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.
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Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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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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Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.
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An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
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If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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To fear love is to fear life.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
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