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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know
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I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.
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I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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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.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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