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In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don’t accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves (Bertrand Russell Quotes)