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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

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Men
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Bertrand Russell
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I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Civilization
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Bertrand Russell
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. – Bertrand Russell

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respect
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

What is art but a way of seeing? – Saul Bellow

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Art

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. Theres likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdams or Hamburgs galleries. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Art

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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Art

Random Quotes

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. – Lou Reed

Category:
Religion

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Back to School

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Religion

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat. – Vic Snyder

Category:
Attitude