"An individual human existence should be like a…" — Bertrand Russell
"An individual human existence should be like a river"
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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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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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