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

About Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English mathematician and philosopher. A founder of analytic philosophy, he was a leading philosopher of the 20th century who produced pioneering work in logic, set theory, and philosophy of language. Russell popularised philosophy to...

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

—Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

—Bertrand Russell

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

—Bertrand Russell

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

—Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

—Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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