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 RUSSELLI say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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