One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's ___ is terribly important.
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To acquire ___ to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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___ is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer ___ is the beginning of wisdom.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the ___ required for cooperation with oneself.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for ___ reasons.
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___ serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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Not to be absolutely ___ is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a ___ to them.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the ___, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the ___, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Do not fear to be ___ in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once ___.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must ___ yourself to seeing others also happy.
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Do not feel envious of the ___ of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is ___.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of ___.
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___ may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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This is one of those views which are so absolutely ___ that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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I find myself quite unable to ___ any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to ___ one.
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The pursuit of philosophy is founded on the belief that knowledge is good, even if what is known is ___.
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To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other ___.
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"___ at me" is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.
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→ A great many men will cheerfully face impoverishment if they can thereby secure complete ruin for their rivals.
→ Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off.
→ The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
→ The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
One of these may be attributed to Bertrand Russell. Which one?
→ The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
→ A great many men will cheerfully face impoverishment if they can thereby secure complete ruin for their rivals.
→ Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off.
→ The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Can you identify the right quote belonging to Bertrand Russell?
→ It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
→ There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
→ At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
→ Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Try to identify the quote attributed to Bertrand Russell.
→ Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it.
→ The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
→ Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
→ Life starts all over when it gets crisp in the fall.
Can you identify which quote belongs to Bertrand Russell?
→ Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
→ It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
→ Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
→ I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
→ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
→ I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
→ He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Select the quotation attributed to Bertrand Russell.
→ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
→ Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
→ This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
→ Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
→ In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.
→ Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
→ Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.