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Bertrand Russell

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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”— Bertrand Russell
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“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”— Bertrand Russell
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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.”— Bertrand Russell
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”— Bertrand Russell
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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.”— Bertrand Russell
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”— Bertrand Russell
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“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”— Bertrand Russell
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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”— Bertrand Russell
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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”— Bertrand Russell
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“In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.”— Bertrand Russell
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”— Bertrand Russell
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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.”— Bertrand Russell
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“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”— Bertrand Russell