My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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