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BERTRAND RUSSELL Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginar...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no lon...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very fe...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
BERTRAND RUSSELL Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way
BERTRAND RUSSELL What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
BERTRAND RUSSELL Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is off...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to gro...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is only the dead who do not return.
BERTRAND BARERE A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
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