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When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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A drop of water is not immortal it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
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Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
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Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.
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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
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