Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Tag: Bertrand Russell
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists – that is why they invented hell.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.