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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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