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Bertrand Russell Quotes
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A stupid mans report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
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. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
All movements go too far. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Anything youre good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man wholl get the blame. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
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