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Seems Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
- Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive…
- On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep…
- Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
- At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end…
- We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part…
- What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a…
- To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is…
- It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the…
- I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life…
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
- Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet?…
- It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not…
More Seems Quotes
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen
- Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. — Diane Ackerman