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Americans need rest, but do not know it.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
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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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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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To fear love is to fear life.
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To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.
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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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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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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
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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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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
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Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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