"The first step in wisdom, as well as……" — Bertrand Russell
"The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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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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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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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
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