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A Britishphilosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a Britishphilosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life, he imagined himself in turn a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. Though he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97. Here are some famous quotes by Bertrand Russell.
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Worry is a form of fear.
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All movements go too far.
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All forms of fear produce fatigue.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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What men want is not knowledge but certainty.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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Most people would die sooner than think; in fact they do.
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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.
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What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.
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Men are born ignorant not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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 central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
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To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
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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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Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it they remain barren.
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It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
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Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.
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'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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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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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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Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
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Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
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The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
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In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
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The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
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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.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
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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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The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.
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The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
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The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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Work is of two kinds: first altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
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Philosophers for the most part are constitutionally timid and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable at least in its main outlines.
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Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women at any rate in childbirth.
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.
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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.