To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
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Bertrand Russell (182)
Birth: | 18th May, 1872 |
Death: | 2nd February, 1970 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Historian, Mathematician, Philosopher |
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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.
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