"We know too much and feel too little.……" — Bertrand Russell
"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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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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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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