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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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 best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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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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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
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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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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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