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Bertrand Russell

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.


— Bertrand Russell


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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.


— Bertrand Russell


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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.


— Bertrand Russell


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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.


— Bertrand Russell


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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.


— Bertrand Russell


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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.


— Bertrand Russell


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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.


— Bertrand Russell


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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.


— Bertrand Russell


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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.


— Bertrand Russell


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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.


— Bertrand Russell


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Did you know about Bertrand Russell?

In 1896 he taught German social democracy at the London School of Economics where he also lectured on the science of power in the autumn of 1937. However his books were sold at auction to raise the money. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the British Humanist Association and President of Cardiff Humanists until his death.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher logician mathematician historian and social critic. Whitehead Principia Mathematica an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. ".

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