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| Most people would rather die than think: many do. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| All human activity is prompted by desire. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| 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 | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgement based upon it. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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