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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Elderly Happens Ignorant Magistrate Obscenity Shock Some Whatever

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Caution Fatal Forms Happiness Love Love Is Most Perhaps True True Happiness

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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Based Error Fact Hallucination Judgment

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Collective Fear Herd Instinct Members Produce Regarded Stimulates Tends Those Toward Who

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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

~Bertrand Russell

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Aim Animals Civilised Even Great Importance Matter Men Most Philosophy Practical Savages Theoretical Understanding Which World

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Any Could Desired Few Happiness Large Large Number More Number Others Own Paradise People Than Today Unhappiness Were Who World Years

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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Continuity Human Inventions Just Order Truly Unity

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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Bear Below Coward Equal Ever First Foe Hand Heart Pain Slightest Start Torture Whose Wretch

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Activities Compulsion Consists Desirable Discipline External Habits Lead Mind Rather Right Spontaneously Than Undesirable Which

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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