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Possible Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
- Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
- Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
- From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with…
- The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest…
- It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon…
- Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
- The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility…
- All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
- Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
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- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
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