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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Bertrand Russell
Book, Law, Giving

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

Bertrand Russell
Children, Levels, Uniforms
Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Equality, America
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Bertrand Russell
Attitude, Knowledge, Science
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Bertrand Russell
Travel, Adventure, Cohesion
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.11, Routledge

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Bertrand Russell
Envy, Desire, May
"The Conquest of Happiness".

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Mind, Purpose
Bertrand Russell, Alasdair Urquhart, Albert C. Lewis (1994). “Foundations of Logic, 1903-05”, p.420, Psychology Press

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Race, People
"Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Bertrand Russell
Atheist, Religion, Atheism
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Bertrand Russell
Truth, Trying, Ifs
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell
Science, Power, Energy
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.4, Psychology Press

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Bertrand Russell
Life, Children, Men
Marriage and Morals

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

Bertrand Russell
Life, Believe, Passion
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.46, Routledge

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Ego, Firsts
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.666, Routledge

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell
Creativity, Ideas, Creative
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.10, Courier Corporation

I do so hate to leave this world.

Bertrand Russell
Death, Hate, World

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Bertrand Russell
War, Two, Arbitration

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

Bertrand Russell
Dream, Passion, Men

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell
Political, Next, Acquisition
'Sceptical Essays' (1928) 'Recrudescence of Puritanism'

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Bertrand Russell
Achievement, Essentials, Able
Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.160, Routledge

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Bertrand Russell
Artist, Joy, Spread
"1967" by Bertrand Russell,

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Curious, Pleasant
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.303, Psychology Press

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Bertrand Russell
Life, Real, Men
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Children, Husband
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

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