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| Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| One must care about a world one will not see. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion? | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Sin is geographical. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| 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. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| 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. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| 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. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. | Bess Myerson | |
| Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! | Bessie Delaney | |
| You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him. | Best of Bits and Pieces | |
| Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction | Best of Bits and Pieces | |
| Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing. | Best of Bits and Pieces | |
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| The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve] | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
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