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Either Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
- Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of…
- An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there…
- There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
- Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily…
- The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else…
- Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that…
- To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the…
- Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed;…
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
- There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice…
- When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men…
- The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in…
- The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are…
More Either Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At… — Paul Auster
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon