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Capable Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as…
- A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
- 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…
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of…
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…
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- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,… — Pope Benedict XVI
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