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Thoughts Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
- I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
- Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
- There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due…
- Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
- Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
- When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would…
- The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which…
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- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
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