"The habit of looking to the future and……" — Bertrand Russell
"The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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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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