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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1655
Corresponding to memory, for example, there must be some physical modifying of the brain, and mental life must be connected with physical properties of the brain tissue. In fact, if we had more knowledge,
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1590
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1587
Political justice had its day in industrialised parts of the world and is still to be sough in the unindustrialised parts, but economic justice is still a painfully sought goal. It requires a world-wide
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n.1525
It is not important to increase the amount of what is learnt above that now usually taught to the children of the professional classes. What is important is the spirit of adventure and liberty, the sense of
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1495
In addition to regular work, boys and girls ought to be encouraged to take an interest in current controversial questions of importance, political, social, and even theological. They should be encouraged to
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1494
For my part, the time I spent in Russia was one of continually increasing nightmare. I have said in print what, on reflection, appeared to me to be the truth, but I have not expressed the sense of utter
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1470
Some of my moods in prison are illustrated by the following extracts from letters to my brother, all of which had to be such as to be passed by the Governor of the prison" Here I have not a care in the world
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1462
A trustful affectionate disposition justifies itself, because it gives irresistible charm, and creates the response which it expects. This is one of the most important results to be expected from the right
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n.1460
Philosophies are more unified than life. In life, we have many desires, but a philosophy is usually inspired by some one dominant desire which gives it coherence.
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1459
I quite admit that many people, including some of the most virtuous, find facts inconvenient, but that is due to a certain feebleness in their virtue. A truly robust morality can only be strengthened by
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1435
The most important form of competition, at the present day, is between States, especially those that are called Great Powers. This has become a totalitarian competition, for power, for wealth, for
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n.1422
Untruthfulness, as a practice, is almost always a product of fear. The child brought up without fear will be truthful, not in virtue of a moral effort, but because it will never occur to him to be otherwise. https://t.co/UNmihiArJO
#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1408
People read a literary classic without any attempt to see what it means in terms of the lives of Brown, Jones, and Robinson. This is particularly easy with a Utopia, because we are not told of any road which
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n.1397
The wise man fails to observe the dust that the housemaid has not dusted, the potato that the cook has not cooked, and the soot that the sweep has not swept. I do not mean that he takes no steps to remedy
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1385
When I was a child, I loved to turn head over heels. I never do so now, though I should not think it wicked to do so. Similarly the child who enjoys being Bluebeard will outgrow this taste, and learn to seek
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1371
When his mother told him the story of Bluebeard, he insisted on being Bluebeard, and regarded the wife as justly punished for insubordination. In his play, there was a sanguinary outbreak of cutting off
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1357
The substitution of a new moral code for the old one can never be completely satisfactory, unless the new one is accepted with the whole personality, not only with that top layer which constitutes our
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1352
What is called conscience, that is to say, the unreasoning and more or less unconscious acceptance of precepts learnt in early youth, causes men still to feel that whatever the conventions prohibit is wrong,
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n.1348
But it is in times of misfortune that parents are most to be relied upon, in illness, and even in disgrace if the parents are of the right sort. ... Our parents love us because we are their children, and
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#Bertrand_Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1341
I do not deny that if we were all perfectly happy we should not exert ourselves to become happier. But I cannot admit that it is any part of the duty of human beings to provide others with pain on the
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