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«The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
face, face up, fact, horrible, secret, The Secret
«A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
atmosphere, dare, extent, Happy Life, joy, quiet, quieted, quieter, quiets, Quiet Life, to a great extent, to that extent, to what extent
«The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.»
«Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
disguise, elegant
«What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite»
«The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Controversy
| Keywords:
as to, controversies, either, evidence, evidences, in evidence, matters, no-good, savage, savaged
«The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conscience, cruelties, cruelty, delight, delighting, hell, infliction, invented, moralist, moralists
«There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.»
«Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.»
«So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
far, Gospels, intelligence, praise, remember, so far, word
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