"A man is rational in proportion as his……" — Bertrand Russell
"A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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More Controls Quotes
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
— Aeschylus
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
— Sitting Bull
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we…
— Dick Cheney
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls…
— William J. Clinton
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty,…
— Alan K. Simpson
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about…
— Wilma Mankiller
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
— John Donne
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