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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

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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. – Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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Lets talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. Its a Gigantic project. – Joseph Beuys

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugene Delacroix

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