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

— Bertrand Russell

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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