Quote by Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrific

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

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

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

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Death
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. – Bertrand Russell

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power
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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. – Bertrand Russell

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Philosophy
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. – Gustave Flaubert

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There is nothing new in art except talent. – Anton Chekhov

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Art is the proper task of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. – Thomas Huxley

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The nice thing about the Bible is it doesnt give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. – Howard Nemerov

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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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