Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren
[Action]
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It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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It is true that if we ever did stop to think about the cosmos we might find it uncomfortable. The sun may grow cold or blow up; the earth may lose its atmosphere and become uninhabitable
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.
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Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned
[Life]
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
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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.
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Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world
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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.
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Man can be scientifically manipulated
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