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(1080 votes) 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 paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(1067 votes) All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell
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(839 votes) Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(749 votes) We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(686 votes) When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

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(681 votes) The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Thomas Russell

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(408 votes) Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell
1934-, American Basketball Player

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(364 votes) Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Bertrand Russell
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(331 votes) Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Bertrand Russell
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(316 votes) We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Bertrand Russell

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(309 votes) No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

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(282 votes) There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

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1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(273 votes) There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

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(273 votes) In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.

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(271 votes) Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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(271 votes) To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

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(266 votes) The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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(266 votes) Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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(265 votes) When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

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(263 votes) Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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(262 votes) Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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(261 votes) 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.

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(261 votes) An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

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(259 votes) With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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(256 votes) Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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(254 votes) What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

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(254 votes) Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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(253 votes) Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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(250 votes) Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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(247 votes) Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

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(244 votes) Most people would rather die than think: many do.

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(241 votes) What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

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(238 votes) 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.

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(238 votes) The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

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(238 votes) The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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(237 votes) The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

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(236 votes) It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

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(235 votes) Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

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(235 votes) To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

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(234 votes) 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.

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(233 votes) 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 civilized men.

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(231 votes) A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

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(231 votes) Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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(229 votes) Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

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(227 votes) 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.

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1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(226 votes) Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Bill Russell
1934-, American Basketball Player

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(226 votes) Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Lady R. Russell

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(223 votes) A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

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1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(222 votes) We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

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(218 votes) There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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