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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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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Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
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