Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Angry

“Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.”

May Desire Envy

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.”

People Order Religious

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Philosophical

“What is matter? Never mind.”

Mind Matter

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Love

“Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell”

Love Is Hell

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Philosophical

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.”

Science Attitude Knowledge

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Philosophical

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”

Men Stupid Clever

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Philosophical

“What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.”

Time Prejudice Authority

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Philosophical

“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.”

Men America Equality

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Philosophical

“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.”

Religion Atheism Cynical

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Determined

“Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”

Thinking Play Educational

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Philosophical

“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.”

Beautiful Power Machines

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Funny

“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?”

Real Beautiful Beauty

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