Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
From Bertrand Russell
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Sin is geographical.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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