"From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of……" — Bertrand Russell
"From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary..."
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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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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
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I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player,…
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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