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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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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 paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

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