Quote by Bertrand Russell
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women ha

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

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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Poetry
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. – Bertrand Russell

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. – Ninon de Lenclos

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner! – John F. Kennedy

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My family and friends treat me as they always have. – Daniel Craig

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. – Jean Baudrillard

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emersons 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic – Daniel J. Boorstin

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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