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Love cannot exists as a duty to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
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The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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