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> [Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/do-you-think-that-civilization-advances-because-of-things-written-in/)

[Walter Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell/)

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## More by Walter Russell

> [Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/women-are-a-map-avik-you-ve-got-to-understand-their-longitude-and-how/)

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> [I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/i-believe-that-every-man-can-multiply-his-own-ability-by-almost/)

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> [The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/the-electric-energy-which-motivates-us-is-not-within-our-bodies-at/)

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> [Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/your-body-is-merely-a-machine-made-to-express-the-thoughts-that-flow/)

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> [The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/the-life-triumphant-is-that-which-places-what-a-man-gives-to-the/)

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> [Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/man-s-ignorance-of-the-law-of-love-in-personal-and-world/)

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> [Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/knowledge-is-cosmic-it-does-not-evolve-or-unfold-in-man-man-unfolds/)

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> [This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/this-new-age-is-marking-the-dawn-of-a-new-world-thought-that-new/)

[Walter Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell/)

> [The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/the-personal-ego-must-be-suppressed-and-replaced-with-the-universal/)

[Walter Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell/)

> [War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/war-and-more-wars-are-helping-government-to-siphon-the-earnings-of/)

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> [Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/most-sculptors-make-the-mistake-he-said-of-thinking-of-eyes-as-form/)

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> [There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/there-is-no-use-for-energy-of-any-kind-whatsoever-unless-there-is-a/)

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> [There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/there-is-no-violent-surface-indication-of-the-ecstasy-which-great/)

[Walter Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell/)

> [“...That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds onmipotence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/that-inner-ecstasy-of-the-mind-is-the-secret-fountain-of-perpetual/)

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> [The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/the-russell-cosmogony-with-its-new-concepts-of-light-matter-energy/)

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