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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
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We do not like to be robbed of an enemy we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
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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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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.
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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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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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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
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The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
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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.
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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