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I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
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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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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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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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