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Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joy that it affords, untroubled by the thoughts of death because he feels himself not really separated from those who will come after him. It is in such a profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found.

- Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

- Bertrand Russell

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

- Bertrand Russell

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

- Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

- Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

- Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

- Bertrand Russell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

- Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

- Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

- Bertrand Russell

Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics

- Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Trust your heart rather than your head.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The freedom of mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The "sociable" man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education... We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau