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

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  Atheist, People, Criticism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

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  Hurt, Essence, Good Man

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.160, Routledge

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• Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

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  Happiness, Friendly, Fundamentals

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.107, Routledge

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• Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

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  Life, Hope, World

  Bertrand Russell (2006). “Political Ideals”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

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  Men, Play, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.135, Booklassic

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• Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

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  Government, May, Sides

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.18, Routledge

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• The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

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  Should Have, Ideas, Leisure

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

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  Chance, Moments, Accepting

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• There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

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  Artist, Joy, Spread

  "1967" by Bertrand Russell,

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• There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

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  Love, Art, Philosophy

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• Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

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  Differences, Finding Yourself, Examination

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge

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• If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

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  Meditation, Half, Affair

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Mortals and Others”, p.35, Routledge

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• I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

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  Acceptance, Degrees, Opinion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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  Happiness, Sleep, Math

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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• When all experts agree, you need to watch out.

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  Experts, Watches, Needs

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• Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Unhappy

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• Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

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  Mistake, Thinking, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

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  Encouragement, Truth, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.45, 谷月社

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• dont let the old break you; let the love make you

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  Break

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• Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

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  May, Matter, Orthodoxy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.16, Routledge

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• Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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  Change, Science, History

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Edward Egner (1961). “The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”

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• The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

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  Taken, People, Gossip

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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• Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

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  People, Laughing, Internet

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• Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

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  Teacher, Two, Way

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.356, Routledge

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• Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

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  Wisdom, Intelligent, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.403, Psychology Press

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