Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”

Years Water Elements

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Angry

“Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.”

Thinking Believe Odin

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Sad

“Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.”

Emotional Bitterness Unhappiness

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Angry

“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”

People Respect

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Philosophical

“Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.”

Self Born

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Angry

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.”

People Atheist Criticism

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Philosophical

“One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.”

Men Religion Atheism

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Philosophical

“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.”

Life Happiness Gratitude

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Philosophical

“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”

Thinking Country School

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Philosophical

“These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.”

People Giving Illustration

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Love

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.”

Men Moving Summer

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Philosophical

“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”

Habit Privilege Revolutionary

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