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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.
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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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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
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I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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