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Past Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- 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…
- There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population…
- 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…
- Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
- Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
- From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.…
- 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…
- One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
- To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will…
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
- To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will…
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach