Bertrand Russell

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"What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."	Success, Law
"Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States."	Success, Law
"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."	Science
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."	Family
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."	Success, Life
"These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair."	Philosophy
"These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair."	Wisdom
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matters; second, telling other people to do so."	Philosophy
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matters; second, telling other people to do so."	Wisdom
"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure."	Philosophy
"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure."	Wisdom
"Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself."	Fear
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand."	Fear
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."	Fear
"The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life."	Fear
"There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition."	Economics, Hope
"I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."	Love
"I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."	Friendship, Dreams
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."	Wisdom
"When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory."	Wisdom
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