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Americans need rest, but do not know it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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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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It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.
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Change is scientific progress is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased
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It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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