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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
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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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We know too much and feel too little.
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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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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It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
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