"The satisfaction to be derived from success in……" — Bertrand Russell
"The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer."
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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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More Constructive Quotes
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to…
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one…
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really…
— Paula Abdul
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But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point,…
— J. William Fulbright
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Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there…
— Unknown Author
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within,…
— Edgar Cayce
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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever…
— Dan Millman
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
— Hans Zinsser
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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