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Bertrand Russell
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell
All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
