"The demand for certainty is one which is……" — Bertrand Russell
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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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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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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