Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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