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UTTERLY RUSSELL The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token... RUSSELL LYNES A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. BERTRAND RUSSELL Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. BERTRAND RUSSELL Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privileg... BERTRAND RUSSELL The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the di... AARON RUSSELL A couple injuries and sickness prevented the women's team from getting off to a better start. If we ... AARON RUSSELL We believe he was using jumper cables to start his tractor when the accident occurred. AARON RUSSELL Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grav... AARON RUSSELL With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w... BERTRAND RUSSELL I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ... BERTRAND RUSSELL The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war co... NIPSEY RUSSELL To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely... BERTRAND RUSSELL Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... BERTRAND RUSSELL If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha... BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem... BERTRAND RUSSELL If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun... BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine... BERTRAND RUSSELL What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l... DORA RUSSELL Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure... BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev... BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p... BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate... BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ... BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc... RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte... BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur... RUSSELL BRAND