"To understand a name you must be acquainted……" — Bertrand Russell

"To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name."

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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…
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
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It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to… — Sun Tzu
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to… — Sun Tzu
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks,… — Tertullian
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. — John Ruskin
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how… — Swami Vivekananda
I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration… — Spencer W. Kimball

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