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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river -- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any v..
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When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.
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There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The first that he questioned was called William Williams; so were the second, third, fourth.... At last he said to himself: 'This is tedious; evidently they are all called William Williams. I shall put them down so and take a holiday'. But he was wrong; there was just one whose name was John Jones. This shows that we may g..
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Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The above proposition is occasionally useful.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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Bertrand Russell |
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I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
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Bertrand Russell |
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One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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Bertrand Russell |
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Bertrand Russell |
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Bertrand Russell |
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In art [the Chinese] aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The camera is as subjective as we are.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
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Bertrand Russell |
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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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Bertrand Russell |
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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Bertrand Russell |
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Bertrand Russell |
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
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Bertrand Russell |
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell |
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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Bertrand Russell |
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The universe is what it is, not what I choose that it should be.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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Bertrand Russell |
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I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Bertrand Russell |
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Bertrand Russell |
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I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
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