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| I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Drunkenness is temporary suicide. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. 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 |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| 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 |
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| It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| All movements go too far. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. |
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 widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. |
Bertrand Russell |
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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. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. |
George Shultz |
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| Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. |
Timothy Leary |
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| You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. |
Timothy Leary |
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| We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. |
Timothy Leary |
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| Turn on, tune in and drop out. |
Timothy Leary |
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| There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. |
Timothy Leary |
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| Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. |
Timothy Leary |
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| The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| A good listener is usually thinking about something else. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it |
Kin Hubbard |
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| It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. |
Kin Hubbard |
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| Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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