Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possibl… - Bertrand Russell

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Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.

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About Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1950, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Birth Name: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Alternative Names: Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell Russell
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هناك دافعان لقراءة كتاب ما: الأول هو الاستمتاع به، والثاني هو التباهي بقراءته.

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People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.

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