Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: 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.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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