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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.
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Affection cannot be created it can only be liberated.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
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Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Do not feel certain of anything.
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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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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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