"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly……" — Bertrand Russell
"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power"
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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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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By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole,…
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold…
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It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
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Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have…
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by…
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That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our…
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A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or…
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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so…
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