#Bertrand Russels

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century, on how to grow old.

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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When moral sleazebags like Donald Trump feign religion, you know the reason.

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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

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Some things are believed because people feel as if they must be true, and in such cases an immense weight of evidence is necessary to dispel the belief.

Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

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“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed out on the best that life has to offer."

—Bertrand Russell

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それが何であれ、あなたの得意なことが幸福に導いてくれる。

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell バートランド・ラッセル

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious. The sailors who threw Jonah overboard imagined his presence to be the cause of the storm which threatened to wreck their ship. In a similar spirit the Japanese, at the time of the Tokyo earthquake took to massacring Koreans and Liberals. When the Romans won victories in the Punic wars, the Carthaginians became persuaded that their misfortunes were due to a certain laxity which had crept into the worship of Moloch. Moloch liked having children sacrificed to him, and preferred them aristocratic; but the noble families of Carthage had adopted the practice of surreptitiously substituting plebeian children for their own offspring. This, it was thought, had displeased the god, and at the worst moments even the most aristocratic children were duly consumed in the fire. Strange to say, the Romans were victorious in spite of this democratic reform on the part of their enemies.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. So it was in the French Revolution, when dread of foreign armies produced the reign of terror. And it is to be feared that the Nazis, as defeat draws nearer, will increase the intensity of their campaign for exterminating Jews. Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. And for this reason poltroons are more prone to cruelty than brave men, and are also more prone to superstition. When I say this, I am thinking of men who are brave in all respects, not only in facing death. Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death; that is one reason why, in times of collective excitement, so few men venture to dissent from the prevailing opinion. No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage than was required to face death in battle.

—Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, in Unpopular Essays (1943)

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