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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.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
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The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
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Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
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The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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