"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in……" — Bertrand Russell
"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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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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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
— Roseanne Barr
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
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