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Said Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
- Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal…
- I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and…
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
- I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
- It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a…
- Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not…
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