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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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Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.
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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister should they let the human race die out?
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
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it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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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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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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