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Times 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…
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population…
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
- All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public…
- Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
- It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in…
- The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or,…
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- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
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