Bertrand Russell

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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