"I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is…" — Bertrand Russell
"I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool."
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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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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things…
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