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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Absence Defined Desires Freedom General May Obstacles Realization

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

~Bertrand Russell

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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

~Bertrand Russell

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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

~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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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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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

~Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

~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

Topics: Anything Because Death Devour Doomed Fate Finds Greater He Himself His Slave Than Things Thoughts Time Which Worship

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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

~Bertrand Russell

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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