The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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 that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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