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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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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.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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