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Others Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We…
- If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
- The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy…
- I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must…
- The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
- 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…
- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- no one ever gossips about the virtues of others
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery…
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others
- Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others…
More Others Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen