Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Do not feel certain of anything
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness
All human activity is prompted by desire
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought
War does not determine who is right - only who is left
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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