Tag: Bertrand Russell

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

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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

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