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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
Bertrand Russell
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, Good God, what have I said? and then I knew it was true.
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Bertrand Russell
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Bertrand Russell
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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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.
Bertrand Russell
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Bertrand Russell
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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