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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Bertrand Russell
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18 May, 1872
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02 February, 1970
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