Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #breakdown #important #nervous #nervous breakdown

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#philosophy #science #you

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fact #in fact #most #people #sooner

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#suicide #temporary

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #know #mathematics #may #never

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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