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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.
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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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know
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no one ever gossips about the virtues of others
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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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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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