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Bertrand Russell

Feelings
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
3.1 · 56 votes · 192 reads
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Society
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
3.9 · 24 votes · 178 reads
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Various
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
4.3 · 58 votes · 142 reads
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Thought and Reason
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
3.1 · 56 votes · 194 reads
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Society
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
3.8 · 16 votes · 121 reads
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Virtues
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.
4.5 · 24 votes · 168 reads
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Government and Politics
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
3.6 · 7 votes · 154 reads
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Society
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
3.6 · 57 votes · 170 reads
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Nature
The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
3.3 · 41 votes · 24 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.0 · 27 votes · 2 reads
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Nature
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.
3.6 · 42 votes · 34 reads
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Feelings
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
4.6 · 28 votes · 194 reads
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Society
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
4.2 · 26 votes · 120 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.8 · 63 votes · 29 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.0 · 32 votes · 188 reads
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Thought and Reason
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
4.0 · 10 votes · 65 reads
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Virtues
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
4.8 · 31 votes · 55 reads
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Thought and Reason
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
3.0 · 38 votes · 8 reads
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Virtues
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
4.7 · 30 votes · 158 reads
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Government and Politics
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
4.1 · 39 votes · 40 reads
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Science and Technology
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendshi
4.8 · 46 votes · 109 reads
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Society
There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
3.5 · 7 votes · 65 reads
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Society
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
5.0 · 28 votes · 49 reads
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Various
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.
4.8 · 5 votes · 20 reads
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Thought and Reason
Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
4.0 · 35 votes · 126 reads
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Feelings
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
5.0 · 19 votes · 44 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.8 · 13 votes · 107 reads
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Feelings
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
4.4 · 48 votes · 57 reads
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Virtues
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
3.4 · 64 votes · 122 reads
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Thought and Reason
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
3.7 · 26 votes · 172 reads
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Nature
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
3.4 · 46 votes · 45 reads
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Defects
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
4.7 · 6 votes · 81 reads
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Various
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
4.0 · 20 votes · 106 reads
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Various
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
4.7 · 47 votes · 7 reads
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Feelings
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
3.3 · 17 votes · 10 reads
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Feelings
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
4.0 · 15 votes · 157 reads
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Thought and Reason
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
3.3 · 17 votes · 70 reads
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Thought and Reason
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
3.5 · 48 votes · 0 reads
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