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Bertrand Russell Quotes:

Ocupation: Philosopher

Life: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Birthday: May 18

Death: February 2

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.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

topic: Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be, Burglars

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