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Bertrand Russell
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970
Nationality: British
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: British Philosopher

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

   

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.

    Topics: Courage

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

   

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

   

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

   

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.

   

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

   

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

   

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

   

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.

   

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

   

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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