Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 4

• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

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  Thinking, World Government, Class

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• I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

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  Believe, Mean, Successful

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• My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

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  Religion, Rewards, Duty

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Government

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.443, Psychology Press

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• Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

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  Ideas, Blasphemy, Great Idea

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• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

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  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

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  Life, Badass, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.204, Psychology Press

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• Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

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  Desire, Degrees, Lives Of Others

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.445, Psychology Press

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• You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

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  Believe, World, Helping

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• Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

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  Thinking, Essentials, Doubt And Certainty

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

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  Coffee, Cups, Looks

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• Beware the man of the single book

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  Book, Men, He Man

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• Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

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  Believe, Character, Government

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

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  Happiness, Depressing, Hate

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• An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

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  Christian, Atheist, Practice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.557, Routledge

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

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  Peace, Military, War

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• The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

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  Fall, Fate, Opportunity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

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  Fear, Men, Worry

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

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  Discipline, Desire, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

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  Truth, Men, Safe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.42, Routledge

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• No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

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  Men, Giving, Car

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

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  Leadership, Girl, Teacher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge

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• Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.

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  Buddhism, Winning, Islam

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism”, p.74, Cosimo, Inc.

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