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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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Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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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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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
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That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
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The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
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I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.
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