Bertrand Russel
Bertrand Russel
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
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There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations
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This is a pretty fable, and I will not deny that it is logically possible, but that is the utmost that I will concede.
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The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
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specially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is
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I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours
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It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling
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It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
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If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships
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What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.