Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“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 civilised men.”

Men Animal Philosophy

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.”

May Science Ethics

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Creative

“The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”

Spirit Delight

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Inspired

“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”

Life Food

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Philosophical

“Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.”

Art Two Class

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Philosophical

“Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.”

Littles Math Statistics

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Angry

“People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.”

People Positive Thinking

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Philosophical

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”

Drinking Suicide

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Wise

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”

Art Math Perfection

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Philosophical

“RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.”

God Emotional Religion

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Philosophical

“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”

Thinking Time Truth

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Inspired

“Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.”

Men Important Unhappy

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