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Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human ...

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

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Bertrand Russell

It is only in marriage with t...

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

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Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is that part of sc...

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.

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Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic must be discovered...

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

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Bertrand Russell

In adolescence, I hated life ...

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

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Bertrand Russell

I think periods of browsing d...

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

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Bertrand Russell

Remote from human passions, r...

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

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Bertrand Russell

My own view on religion is . ...

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

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Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upward...

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

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Bertrand Russell

It appeared that after first ...

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

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Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democra...

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

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Bertrand Russell

A habit of basing convictions...

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

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Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to hap...

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

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Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will rede...

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

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Bertrand Russell

When I was a child . . . Only...

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

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Bertrand Russell

Aristotle's metaphysics, roug...

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

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Bertrand Russell

When anaesthetics were invent...

When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

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Bertrand Russell

It is because modern educatio...

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

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Bertrand Russell

It must not be supposed that ...

It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.

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Bertrand Russell

When I was 4 years old ... I ...

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

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