"I believe that when I die I shall……" — Bertrand Russell
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
— Sun Tzu
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story…
— Winston Churchill
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
— Marquis de Sade
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