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Absolute Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
- To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
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- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno