| 89 Famous Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible”
Opinions Quotes |
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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”
Science Quotes |
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“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Unhappiness Quotes |
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“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life”
Zest Quotes |
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“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.”
Agriculture Quotes |
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
Belief Quotes |
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“The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.”
Birth control Quotes |
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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate”
Capitalism Quotes |
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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Caution Quotes |
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“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others”
Certainty Quotes |
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“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.”
Challenge Quotes |
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“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
Civilization Quotes |
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“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way”
Controversy Quotes |
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“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.”
Controversy Quotes |
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“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Envy Quotes |
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“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
Extremism Quotes |
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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
Freedom Quotes |
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“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
Gossip Quotes |
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“Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting”
Hunting Quotes |
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“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”
Italy Quotes |
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“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice”
Justice Quotes |
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“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery”
Machines Quotes |
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“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths”
Mankind Quotes |
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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion”
Mankind Quotes |
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“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race”
Mankind Quotes |
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Bertrand Russell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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