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Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Bertrand Russell
Love Is, Eels, Hell

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Bertrand Russell
Opinion, Inspired, Cruelty
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.144, Routledge

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Bertrand Russell
Inspiration, Firsts, Logical
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.22, Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell
Fear, Boredom, Half
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 4

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Bertrand Russell
Simple, Perfect, Language
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Bertrand Russell
Creative, Done, Firsts

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Bertrand Russell
Truth, Wish, Politics
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.406, Psychology Press

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Bertrand Russell
Government, United States, Divine Revelation
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.51, Routledge

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Principles, Modern Life

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell
Yield, Mutation, Materialism
Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.69, Psychology Press

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Bertrand Russell
Husband, Men, Wife
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.22, Routledge

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Bertrand Russell
Wise, Wisdom, Civilization
Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Bertrand Russell
Vanity, Needs, Satisfaction
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, People, Labels
Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.40, Routledge

It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

Bertrand Russell
Heart, Skills, Training
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Bertrand Russell
Psychology, Disease, Should

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Bertrand Russell
Gun, Metaphysical, Ironclads
Bertrand Russell (1994). “Philosophical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

Bertrand Russell
Hurt, Essence, Good Man
Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.160, Routledge

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

Bertrand Russell
Home, Mean, Thinking
Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.25, Psychology Press

It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.

Bertrand Russell
Children, Law, Public Opinion
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.270, Routledge

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

Bertrand Russell
Construction, Logical, Entity
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.234, Bertrand Russell

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

Bertrand Russell
Shoes, Choices, Pairs
"Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics". Book by David Williams, p. 498, 2001.

Only six need be attempted.

Bertrand Russell
Six, Needs, Humour

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

Bertrand Russell
Art, Philosophy, Essence

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Despair, Foundation

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