"Our instinctive emotions are those that we have……" — Bertrand Russell
"Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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