"Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty……" — Bertrand Russell
"Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture."
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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 Austere Quotes
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts…
— Geraldine Brooks
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none…
— Elinor Wylie
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away…
— Rajneesh
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
— Ansel Adams
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
— Kingsley Amis
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
— Corbin Bernsen
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
— Alexander Herzen
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