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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.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSEL
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 RUSSEL
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ...
BERTRAND BARERE
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux...
BERTRAND BARERE
Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).
BERTRAND BARERE
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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.
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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...
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
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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
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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