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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I 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.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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