"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of……" — Bertrand Russell
"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake."
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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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There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within…
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Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to…
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I love being at home and cooking and baking.
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I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about…
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I carry McCormick’s Pure Vanilla [in my purse]—the baking kind—and dab it on my neck… Men are attracted to the…
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I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell…
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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and…
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Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and…
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