"Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except……" — Bertrand Russell
"Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from."
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Bertrand Russell
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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 Differs Quotes
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
— Charles Darwin
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The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then…
— Charles Babbage
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The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is…
— Bertrand Russell
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day…
— Aristotle
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