How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race. - Bertrand Russell

Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.

The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect is to be a ccorded to the victor. This view leads to an undue cultivation of the will at the expense of the senses and the intellect.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.