3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell 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.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell 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.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
