The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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