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Able Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
- In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do…
- What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a…
- Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite…
- If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been…
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical…
- Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
- When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,…
- When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all…
- My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery…
- To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
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