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" Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. "

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" Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. "

Bertrand Russell

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Women

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" The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. "

" The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. "

" I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. "

" Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

" Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. "

" The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. "

" Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. "

" The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. "

" Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. "

" I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. "

" Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. "

" Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. "

" The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. "

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

" Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. "

" In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. "

Bertrand Russell

Result

Experience

" 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. "

" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "

" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. "

Bertrand Russell

Family

Small

" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

" The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. "

" Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. "

" I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. "

" I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. "

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. "

" The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. "

" None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. "

Bertrand Russell

Fear

Coward

" If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. "

" I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. "