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It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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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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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
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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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Worry is a form of fear.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
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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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The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
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[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.
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