"It is illegal in England to state in……" — Bertrand Russell
"It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse"
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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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More Derive Quotes
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one of 257 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
— Charles Baudelaire
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
— Benjamin Carson
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values.…
— Jacques Monod
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of…
— Charles Babbage
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers…
— Richard Dawkins
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