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Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. 3 means 2+1, and 4 means 3+1. Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that 4 means the same as 2+2. Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.
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Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
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Love cannot exists as a duty to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
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For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
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On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Only six need be attempted.
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