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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
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Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Bertrand Russell
Do not feel certain of anything.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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