Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those… — 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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