About Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English mathematician and philosopher. A founder of analytic philosophy, he was a leading philosopher of the 20th century who produced pioneering work in logic, set theory, and philosophy of language. Russell popularised philosophy to...
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
To get an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries we have only to look at their pleasures.
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