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Best Cannot Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men…
- As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
- There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
- I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
- (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events…
- Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope…
- It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in…
- There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
- A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
- 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…
- Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.
- When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying…
- If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden