Bertrand Russell Quotes

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
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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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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