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Few Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
- The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few…
- 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…
- In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck…
- It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
- Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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