Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. ↗

— 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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ↗

— 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

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#certain #doubts #fanatics #fools #full

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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