There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell