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Important Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
- Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider…
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles…
- But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in…
- 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…
- Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to…
- In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do…
- Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring…
- I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of…
- 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.…
- All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public…
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with…
- Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
- More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
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