Bertrand Russell | knowledge
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Bertrand Russell | intelligence
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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Bertrand Russell | intelligence
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 | hope
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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Bertrand Russell | history
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 | history
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
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Bertrand Russell | happiness
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.
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