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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
The Key to the Good Life: Bertrand Russell on Love and How to Stop Limiting Your Happiness
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.”
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing
“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
Bertrand Russell on Human Nature, Construction vs. Destruction, and Science as a Key to Democracy
On the art of acquiring “a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy.”
A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: An Extraordinary 1919 Manifesto Signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams, and Other Luminaries
“We commit ourselves never to serve anything but the free Truth that has no frontiers and no limits and is without prejudice against races or castes.”
Bertrand Russell on Immortality, Why Religion Exists, and What “The Good Life” Really Means
“There are forces making for happiness, and forces making for misery. We do not know which will prevail, but to act wisely we must be aware of both.”
In Which Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw Collide on Their Bicycles
“Still I am not thoroughly convinced yet that I was not killed. Anybody but a vegetarian would have been.”
Love Is Wise, Hatred Is Foolish: Bertrand Russell Timeless Message to the Future
What the cult of fact has to do with the essential condition for the survival of the human race.
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