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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM FRS (/ˈrʌsəl/; 1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". Russell was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.

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It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

Human, Nice, Omnipotence, People, Shocked

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. . . It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Passion, Feelings, Conflict, Sane, Feeling, Perhaps

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Exhausting, Futile, Happiness, Indecision, Life, Procrastination

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Continual, Death, Humanity, Knowledge, Lying, Peace

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Actuated, Believe, Large, Numbers, People, Political

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Left, Military, Peace, Right, War

From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

Circumstances, Down, Looks, Outlook, Simple, Soul

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Believe, Intuition, Men, Science, Tentative

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Complaining, Serious, Funny Bumper Sticker, Live, Complain, God

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Die, Life, People, Thinking, Views

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Lakes, Cities, Tea, Tobacco, Forbade, City

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Counts, Left, Losing, Lost

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Leisure, Money, Obtain, Wish, Would Be

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Belief, Beliefs, Feels, Left, Nothing, Rejected

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.

Art, Destiny, Fact, Gives, Numbers, Perfection

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Atrocities, Fall, Nazi, Nazis, Russians

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life, as to what is good and what is evil. This is true in the present day as at any former time. To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers. There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

Age, Evil, Men, Philosophy, Present

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Exercise, Faculties, Genuinely, Happiness, Joy

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Fade, Fear, Infancy, Infancy Is, Reason, Science

Modern life cannot be constructed on. . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Exercise, Life, Manual, Modern Life, Principles, Sedentary

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