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Much Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
- There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
- 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…
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
- There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between…
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
- 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…
- 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.…
- If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result…
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep…
- 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…
- Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
- The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only…
- We know too much and feel too little.
- I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when…
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
- A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
- I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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