Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation...

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely...

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory...

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory...

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power....

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power....

Control your emotion or it will control you

Control your emotion or it will control you

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one...

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one...

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

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

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this...

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this...

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

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...

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief...

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief...

All human activity is prompted by desire

All human activity is prompted by desire

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if...

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if...

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of...

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it...

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children...

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children...

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced...

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced...