"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred……" — Bertrand Russell
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
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You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That…
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
— Northrop Frye
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— J. D. Sedding
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
— Francis Picabia
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