Tag: Bertrand Russell
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell