"When the journey from means to end is……" — Bertrand Russell
"When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired."
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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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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was…
— Pope John Paul II
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as…
— Wendell Berry
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the…
— Timothy Keller
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Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people…
— Khalid ibn al-Walid
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few…
— Richard Perle
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Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by…
— Edward S. Curtis
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