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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.
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It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
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God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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