"The desire to understand the world and the……" — Bertrand Russell
"The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress. It's coexistence or no existence."
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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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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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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to…
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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It's coexistence or no existence.
— Bertrand Russell
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
— Richard Owen
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I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am…
— Ayn Rand
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We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have…
— Yasser Arafat
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We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
— Mike Connolly
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation…
— Abdallah II
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The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich…
— Aime Cesaire
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