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No one gossips about other peo...

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Civilized life has altogether ...

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Italy, and the spring and firs...

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

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Law in origin was merely a cod...

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Machines are worshipped becaus...

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

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

There is something feeble and ...

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

It is possible that mankind is...

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Contempt for happiness is usua...

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

We have, in fact, two kinds of...

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Every advance in civilization ...

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

What the world needs is not do...

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

One should respect public opin...

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Pleasure of love lasts but a m...

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Punctuality is a quality the n...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

The qualities most needed are ...

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Religion is something left ove...

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 1415 quotes

The need for prostitution aris...

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Science can teach us, and I th...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

By self-interest, Man has beco...

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Sin is geographical....

Sin is geographical.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

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