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Living Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.
- It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- 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.…
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires…
- It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly
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