"Man can be stimulated by hope or driven……" — Bertrand Russell
"Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness."
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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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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting…
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting…
— Andre Benjamin
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
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