One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand RussellFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellTags: fear superstition cruelty
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
Bertrand Russell[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellTags: morality conscience hell cruelty dishonesty double-standards
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellThe demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand RussellTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand RussellDogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
Bertrand RussellMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellI’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
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