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Bertrand Russell

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.


— 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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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.


— Bertrand Russell


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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.


— Bertrand Russell


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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.


— Bertrand Russell


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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.


— Bertrand Russell


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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.


— Bertrand Russell


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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.


— Bertrand Russell


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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.


— Bertrand Russell


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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.


— Bertrand Russell


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Did you know about Bertrand Russell?

In 1896 he taught German social democracy at the London School of Economics where he also lectured on the science of power in the autumn of 1937. However his books were sold at auction to raise the money. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the British Humanist Association and President of Cardiff Humanists until his death.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher logician mathematician historian and social critic. Whitehead Principia Mathematica an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. ".

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