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Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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For love of domination we must substitute equality for love of victory we must substitute justice for brutality we must substitute intelligence for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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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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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
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When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
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Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.
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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.
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Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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