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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

~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

Topics: Governed Knowledge Life Longing Love Mankind My Life Passions Pity Search Simple Strong Suffering Three Unbearable

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Beginning Conquer Cruelty Fear Main Source Sources Superstition Wisdom

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Because Beliefs Die Might Never Would Wrong

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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Achieve Desires Distorting Evil Facts Forget Good Good And Evil Know Likely Medium More Only Own Seek Than Those Through View Who World

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Contempt Disguise Elegant Happiness Hatred Human Human Race Other People Race

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Absolute Actual Conform Every Mathematics Must Necessity Only Possible Region Takes Us Which Word

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Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Die Fact In Fact Many People Sooner Than Think Would

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Face Fact Happiness Horrible Secret World

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: About Defined Know Mathematics May Never Nor Saying Subject Talking True Whether Which

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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