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Bertrand Russell


British
May 18, 1872
Philosopher
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Sin is geographical.


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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.


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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.


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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.


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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.


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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.


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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.


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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.


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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.


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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.


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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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