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Remote Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
- 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…
- 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…
- Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our…
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- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency… — James Buchan
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards… — Noam Chomsky
- It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to… — Marcel Proust
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over… — Alexander Hamilton
- While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the… — Eva Hoffman
- The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka