All human activity is prompted by desire

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for...

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for...

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been...

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a...

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a...

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is...

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is...

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence...

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence...

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and...

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and...

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are...

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three...

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is...

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is...

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is...

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is...

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of...

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules -...

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules -...