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Mind Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- 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;…
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of…
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an…
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought…
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are…
- He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life,…
- To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
- A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
- The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
- Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of…
- (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events…
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- 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…
- The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique…
- To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only…
- A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity…
- Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle