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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Acquisition Consists Enjoying Generally Greatest Greatest Pleasure More Next Others Ourselves Pleasure Power Preventing Themselves

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Achieved Almost Almost Everything Centuries Century Distinguishes Earlier Everything Modern Modern World Most Science Spectacular Triumphs Which World

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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.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Act Crowd Fear Great Influence Man Nation Neither Nor Think Trusted

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Become Chief Education Faced Fact Freedom Intelligence Obstacles Paradoxical Thought

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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Boredom Caused Fear Half Mankind Moralist Problem Since Sins Vital

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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Adventure Allowed Form Life Likely Short Sure Take Whatever Which Will Without

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Conscience Cruelty Delight Good Hell Invented Why

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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Liberty License Like Right You

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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Acquainted Must Name Particular Understand Which You

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Bound Circumstances Demand Difficult Entirely Give Happiness Life More Our Personal Than Up

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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