"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just……" — Bertrand Russell
"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
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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 Catalogues Quotes
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As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other…
— Hal Borland
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for…
— Kary Mullis
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Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to…
— Greg Egan
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
— Cameron Diaz
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Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
— Howard Hodgkin
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The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's…
— Vivian Campbell
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As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better…
— James McGreevey
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In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the…
— Peter York
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My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.
— Brooke Shields
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There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed…
— Tom Robbins
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