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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Bertrand Russell
3rd Earl Russell
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
3rd Earl Russell
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To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
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Change is scientific progress is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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