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Ends Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But…
- 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…
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that…
- Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the…
- As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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