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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

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Bertrand Russell's Popular Quotes

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

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At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

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Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

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