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" 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. "

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" Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. "

Bertrand Russell

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Word

" 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. "

" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

" The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. "

" Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief

Worth

" No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? "

" I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. "

" To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. "

" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "

" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "

" To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. "

" With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. "

" Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. "

" The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. "

" The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. "

" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "

" What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. "

" It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. "

Bertrand Russell

Possessions

Anything

" I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. "

" Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

" Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. "

" The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

" 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. "

" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. "

" Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

" The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. "

" The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. "

" 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. "

Bertrand Russell

Result

Experience

" One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. "