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Bertrand Russell

British Philosopher

Born: May 18, 1872

Died: Feb 2, 1970

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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. Bertrand Russell

Democracy Man Blame People Get Process Which Choose

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. Bertrand Russell

Time Good Food Honesty People Words Sex Good Time Believe Living Outrage Knowing Boxes Fists Using Good Food Street

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Bertrand Russell

Good Cruelty Hell Invented Delight Why Conscience

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell

People Other Secret Virtues About No-One Gossips

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

Patriotism Willingness Trivial Reasons

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell

Mathematics Man Sense Exaltation Spirit Touchstone More Poetry Excellence Delight Highest True Surely True Spirit Than Being Which Found

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell

Judgment Fact Hallucination Error Based

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

Fear Every Once Eccentric Accepted Opinion Now

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

You Long Healthy Mark Taken Taken For Granted Healthy Thing Affairs Question Question Mark Hang Then Granted Now Now And Then Thing Things

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

People Think Would Fact Sooner Most Than Die In Fact

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Happiness You Secret Possible Rather Hostile Reactions Friendly Than As Far As The Secret Of Interest Far Persons Interests Your Wide Things

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell

Problem Fear Half Boredom Vital Moralist Since Caused Sins Mankind

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand Russell

Education Freedom Intelligence Thought Become Paradoxical Faced Fact Obstacles Chief

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell

People Criticism Fury Because Departure Convention Conventional Regard Themselves Largely

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Bertrand Russell

Knowledge Ignorance Sense Not Knowing Other Dissipate Philosophies Philosophy Both Absolute Knowing Dogmatism Whether Skepticism Certain Should Certainty

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

Intelligence Remember Word One Word Gospels Praise Far

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell

Suicide Temporary Drunkenness

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell

Happiness Time Nature Made Every Every Time Possibility Feel Longer Talk Sure Odd Opposite Discovery Quite Convinced Gardener

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