Bertrand Russell

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"The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes."	Wisdom
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."	Wisdom
"Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken."	Wisdom
"Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat."	Wisdom
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."	Fear
"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."	Fear
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."	Comedy, Honesty
"The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."	Marriage
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."	Patriotism
"Sin is geographical."	Quotations
"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?"	Quotations
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."	Quotations
"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines."	Philosophy
"To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do."	Philosophy
"No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right."	Religion
"I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy."	Science
"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."	Science
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."	Anti-Religion, War
"Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events."	Miscellaneous
"Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events."	Quotations
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