The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post…

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what...

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what...

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing...

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing...

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all...

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all...

Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work

Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of...

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of...

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure...

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure...

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...

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you...

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you...

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...

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure...

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure...

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

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...

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy...

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy...

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without...

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without...

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions,...

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions,...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it...

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so...

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so...

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left...

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left...