"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially……" — Bertrand Russell
"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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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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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially…
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
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