"Folly is perennial, yet the human race has…" — Bertrand Russell
"Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
— Mary Astell
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none…
— John Quincy Adams
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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