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Quotes By author - Starting with B - Bertrand Russell
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There are 95 quotes for the author Bertrand Russell
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Mathematics
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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Intelligence
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt
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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.
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Relaxation
Source: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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Parents
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Cynicism
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Mathematics
Source: Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Time
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Miscellaneous
Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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All movements go too far.
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Miscellaneous
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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Government
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Miscellaneous
Source: Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Mankind
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Knowledge
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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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.
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