Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#sin

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#emotions #facts #inversely #knowledge #varies

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#children #competitive #credit #defect #fathers

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#know #may #nothing #ours #purpose

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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