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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”

Bertrand Russell · Freedom

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Bertrand Russell

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.

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Bertrand Russell

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.

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Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

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Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Religion