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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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.
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Bertrand Russell
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18 May, 1872
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02 February, 1970
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