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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good»
«The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.»
«Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.»
«Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.»
«The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.»
«Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.»
«Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.»
«Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
catalogues, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, inventions
«Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, anguish, compel, look on, opponents, raped, submit, unspeakable
«One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
anesthetic, anesthetics, intervention, mitigation
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