Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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