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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.
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An individual human existence should be like a river
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
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Some people would rather die than think.
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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.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
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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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I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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