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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (; 18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist.

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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.

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Bertrand Russell

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.

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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.

Tags: Grow, Shall
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Tags: Feeling, Artist, Handicraft
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Tags: Leadership, Without, Different
Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Tags: Society, Children, Credit
Bertrand Russell

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.

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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.

Tags: Time, Men, America
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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.

Tags: Great, Fame, Object
Bertrand Russell

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