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Bertrand Russell Quotes

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favourable and unfavourable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. P. 133 Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy Picture Quote #1

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike Picture Quote #1

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them Picture Quote #1

I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was: If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so? Picture Quote #1

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me Picture Quote #1

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Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting Picture Quote #1

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities Picture Quote #1

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor Picture Quote #1

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be prompted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge Picture Quote #1

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved Picture Quote #1

We are now again in an epoch of wars of religion, but a religion is now called an ideology Picture Quote #1

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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education Picture Quote #1

In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement Picture Quote #1

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom Picture Quote #1

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it Picture Quote #1

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery Picture Quote #1

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events Picture Quote #1

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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favourable and unfavourable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. P. 133 (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike (Bertrand Russell Quotes) This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them (Bertrand Russell Quotes) I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was: If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so? (Bertrand Russell Quotes) As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting (Bertrand Russell Quotes) This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities (Bertrand Russell Quotes) A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be prompted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved (Bertrand Russell Quotes) We are now again in an epoch of wars of religion, but a religion is now called an ideology (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education (Bertrand Russell Quotes) In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom (Bertrand Russell Quotes) If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events (Bertrand Russell Quotes)

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