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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 a paradise in a few years (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry (Bertrand Russell Quotes)