I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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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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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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