Bertrand Russel
Bertrand Russel
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
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The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence
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Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations
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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some
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Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel
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It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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specially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is
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Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness
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There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
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Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety