"Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to……" — Bertrand Russell
"Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent."
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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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So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and…
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every…
— George Washington
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The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President,…
— Frederick Douglass
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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
— William Butler Yeats
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He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer…
— John of Kronstadt
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing…
— William J. Brennan
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Little said is soon amended.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
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Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if…
— Nelson Goodman
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.
— Mike Huckabee
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