"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much……" — Bertrand Russell
"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why…
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Every day brings new choices.
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human…
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