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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective»
«That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.»
«In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.»
«...The universe is just there, and that's all.»
«In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.»
«The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.»
«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 give.»
«Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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attributable, distinguishes, modern science, seventeenth, seventeenth century, triumphs
«In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.»
«Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.»
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