Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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