"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of……" — Bertrand Russell
"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word."
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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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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve…
— Violet Trefusis
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It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often…
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified…
— Ali Larijani
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost…
— Marilyn Hacker
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching…
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