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The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
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European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
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The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
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