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Over Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
- To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
- Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
- For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
- 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…
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will…
- To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will…
- A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left…
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- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
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- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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