81 Quotes by Bertrand Russell about men

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    Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

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    Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

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    It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

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    The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

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    The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

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    All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

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    If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

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    Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

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