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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
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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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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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Some people would rather die than think.
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The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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