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Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

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Support, Comforting, Wish

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

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Thinking, Men, Light
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

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Imagination, Poverty, Logic
"Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

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Love, Romance, Engagement
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

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Personality, Soul, Brain
Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

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Political, Aristocracy, Definitions

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

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Simplicity, Development, Owing
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.42, Routledge

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

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Life, Intelligence, Population

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

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Philosophy, Inspiration, Feelings

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

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Men, Mirrors, Profound
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

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People, Childhood, Belief
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.35, Routledge

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

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Years, Two, Morality
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.120, Routledge

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

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Doe, May, Littles
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.31, Routledge

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

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Fashion, Boys, Order
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

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Fashion, Two, Style

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

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Writing, Paid

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

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Math, Thinking, Understanding

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

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World, Study, Logical
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.155, Routledge

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

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Science, Musician, World
Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

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Tyrants, Citizens, Care

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

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Boys, Men, May
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.76, Routledge

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

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Discovery, Achievement, Age
Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (1985). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and action, 1902-14”, Allen & Unwin Australia

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

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Believe, Firsts, Fine
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.52, Routledge

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

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Men, Theory
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.159, Routledge

An individual human existence should be like a river

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Rivers, Individual, Should
Bertrand Russell, Christopher Farley, David Hodgson (2004). “The life of Bertrand Russell in pictures and in his own words”, Spokesman Pr

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