Bertrand Russell

Quotes by Bertrand Russell.

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Schopenhauer

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The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd.

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Which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Jesus

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

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If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius

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You don't have to go East to go West.

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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

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“ Ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien.” Descartes

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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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Mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater.

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There is all the difference in the world between knowing what to do, and doing it.

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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Wittgenstein

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

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The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu

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Can you really, "Think Harder?"

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True nobility is exempt from fear. Cicero