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Needs Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
- The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
- By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to…
- What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton…
- I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous,…
- Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their…
- Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with…
- 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…
- A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision…
- There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
- The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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