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Point Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a…
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that…
- Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope…
- All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So…
- The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will…
- There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice…
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