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

Bertrand Russell · Knowledge

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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.

Happiness

Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Death

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

War

Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Marriage