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He Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his…
- I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than…
- In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he…
- The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the…
- Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause…
- Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep…
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining…
- When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
- If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been…
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle