In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

—Bertrand Russell

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About Bertrand Russell

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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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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

—Bertrand Russell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

—Bertrand Russell

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy—I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

—Bertrand Russell

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

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All movements go too far.

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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

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How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

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