I 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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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