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

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" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "

Bertrand Russell

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

" 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. "

" Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. "

" The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. "

" If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. "

" Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. "

" 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. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

" The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

" It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. "

" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "

" A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. "

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

" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "

" Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Sin is geographical. "

Bertrand Russell

Geographical

Sin

" With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. "

" 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

" Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "

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

" 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. "

" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

" Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. "

" 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. "

" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "

" To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. "