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Good Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit…
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
- 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…
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
- 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…
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.…
- To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
- I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and…
- The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We…
- What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
- The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.
- A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
- In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one…
- One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
- 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…
- A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by…
- Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
- If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
- It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.…
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle