Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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