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Up Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
- There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
- Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We…
- More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
- Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
- If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to…
- Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other,…
- An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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