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Quotes of Bertrand Russell [64]
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
- One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- 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.
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
- If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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