Bertrand Russell | religion
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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Bertrand Russell | power
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
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Bertrand Russell | power
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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Bertrand Russell | power
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Bertrand Russell | power
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Bertrand Russell | power
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Bertrand Russell | poetry
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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Bertrand Russell | nature
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
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