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A paradoxical factWe are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell | education
Good lifeThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell | life
Happy lifeA 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.
Bertrand Russell | life
Ignorance and stupidityMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell | education
Magical thingsThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell | intelligence
Never knowing fearNone but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell | fear
Ordinary languageI remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell | language
PatriotsPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell | war and peace
Right disciplineRight discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell | discipline
The history of the human race.I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell | war and peace
The secret to happinessThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell | happiness
The stupid and the intelligentThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell | intelligence
To conquer fearFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell | fear
To fear loveTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell | love
Who is left!War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell | war and peace
Without disciplineNothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
Bertrand Russell | discipline
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