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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
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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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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
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This, however, is a passing nightmare in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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