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Bertrand Russell
British
Philosopher
Born:
May 18
,
1872
Died:
Feb 2
,
1970
Happiness
Life
Love
Man
People
Will
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
Time
You
Enjoy
Wasted
Wasted Time
Wasting
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
People
Problem
World
Fools
Wiser
Always
Fanatics
Themselves
Certain
Doubts
Full
Whole
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Love
Good
Knowledge
Good Life
Guided
Inspired
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
War
Determine
Only
Does
Left
Who
Right
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Hatred
Power
Idealism
Passes
Disguised
Much
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Waiting
World
Our
Magical
Sharper
Wits
Patiently
Full
Grow
Things
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Whatever
Evidence
Has-Been
Fact
Absurd
Opinion
Been
Held
Utterly
Widely
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Loneliness
Women
Love Is
Men
Men And Women
Sexual
Something
More
Throughout
Part
Most
Principal
Greater
Escape
Than
Afflicts
Intercourse
Which
Far
Means
Lives
Desire
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell
Will
Only
Redeem
The Only Thing
Mankind
Cooperation
Thing
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Love
Knowledge
Suffering
Strong
Simple
Three
My Life
Longing
Unbearable
Governed
Passions
Pity
Mankind
Search
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
You
Science
Philosophy
Know
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 restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell
Capitalism
Liberty
Tyranny
Apt
Must
Embodied
Restrained
Sacred
Over
Principles
Exercise
Advocate
Very
Maxim
Unfortunate
Which
Fortunate
Appeal
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell
Hatred
Feeling
Tries
Propaganda
More
Stir
Up
Friendly
Than
Much
Successful
Why
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Work
Approaching
Nervous
Important
Symptoms
Nervous Breakdown
Terribly
Breakdown
Belief
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Fear
Cruelty
Beginning
Superstition
Main
Main Source
Source
Sources
Conquer
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Love
Best
Intimacy
Those
Mutual
Give
Never
Missed
Known
Intense
Who
Deep
Companionship
Thing
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell
Great
History
Men
Type
Megalomaniac
Feared
Great Men
Seeks
Charming
Rather
Fact
He
Powerful
Wishes
Most
Narcissist
Than
Loved
Many
Differs
Lunatics
Belong
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Competition
Victim
Nothing
Criminal
Rather
Than
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Respect
Tyranny
Prison
Submission
Starvation
Unnecessary
Out
Insofar
Voluntary
Beyond
Opinion
Goes
Anything
Public
Should
Avoid
Public Opinion
Keep
Necessary
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell
Religion
Enemy
World
Progress
Christian
Say
Churches
Has-Been
Moral
Deliberately
Principal
Still
Been
Quite
Organized
Christian Religion
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
Life
Great
Happy
Joy
Quiet Life
Happy Life
Live
Great Extent
Dare
Must
Atmosphere
Only
True
Quiet
Extent
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
War
Country
Never
Talk
Always
Dying
Patriots
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
Fear
Collective
Herd
Those
Members
Tends
Toward
Instinct
Stimulates
Ferocity
Regarded
Produce
Who
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
Love
Love Is
True Happiness
True
Perhaps
Most
Caution
Forms
Fatal
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell
Time
Equality
Men
Everybody
Admit
Only
Onward
He
Since
Doctrine
Equal
Opinion
Does
America
Inferiors
Upwards
Social
Jefferson
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Living
Else
Possessions
More
More Than Anything
Prevents
Nobly
Freely
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Us
Preoccupation
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