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Bertrand Russell Quote: “Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “All human activity is prompted by desire.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts ‘sins’ and others ‘virtue’ on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Memory demands an image.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “All’s well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Ants and savages put strangers to death.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress. It’s coexistence or no existence.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Thinking you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, “Good God, what have I said?” and then I knew it was true.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
Bertrand Russell Quote: “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
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