"What is best in mathematics deserves not merely……" — Bertrand Russell
"What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement."
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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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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself;…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their…
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these…
— Jeremy Silman
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to…
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