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Little Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
- There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
- 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…
- With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.…
- Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
- There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may…
- Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become…
- We know too much and feel too little.
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
- Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
- There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
- Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired…
- We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us…
- There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
- a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men…
- When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
- Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties…
- A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left…
More Little Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson