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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Asking Beautiful Been Chimney Does Hoot Matter Mockingbird Proper Question Real Singing Usual Why Wrong

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Approaching Belief Breakdown Important Nervous Nervous Breakdown Symptoms Terribly Work

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Absolute Both Certain Certainty Dissipate Ignorance Knowing Knowledge Not Knowing Other Philosophies Philosophy Sense Should Skepticism Whether

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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: About Account Fat Fat Man Him Hippopotamus Isaac Less Man Mere More Much Necessarily Need Newton Respect Sir Size Smaller Than Thin Value Very Worry

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Gained Knowledge Much Pleasure Useless Useless Knowledge

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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Certainty Demand Intellectual Man Natural Nevertheless Vice Which

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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Feeling Friendly Hatred More Much Propaganda Stir Successful Than Tries Up Why

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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Blame Choose Democracy Get Man People Process Which

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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.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Age Door Dragon First Golden Golden Age Guards Mankind Necessary Possible Religion Threshold Will

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Convinced Discovery Every Every Time Feel Gardener Happiness Longer Made Odd Opposite Possibility Quite Sure Talk Time I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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