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Bertrand Russell quote: "Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race"

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. MENCKEN
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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ANDREW GOODMAN
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SUE GRAFTON
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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VOLTAIRE
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
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Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
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An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
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disrespect and contempt for our community.
MAXINE WATERS
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
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They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.
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Seek happiness for others and the universe will seek happiness for you.
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life is for any one, but peace of mind and happiness is for the chosen.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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An individual human existence should be like a river
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up frie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which morali...
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard su...
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had...
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintell...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress ...
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Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indub...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he fi...
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
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The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Most people would rather die than think: many do.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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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...
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...
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Sin is geographical.
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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...
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to d...
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very fe...
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
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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
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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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
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate gov...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays ...
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape f...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ...
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and...
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface rela...
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ide...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which...
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i...
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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