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Long Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their…
- The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few…
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
- Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
- 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,…
- Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
- Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
- Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily…
- When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by…
- Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that…
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
- If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount…
- Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of…
- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence…
- When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying…
- In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long…
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
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- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe