Quote by Bertrand Russell
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to t

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. – 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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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didnt get in bad, bad trouble. – Paul Giamatti

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows. – James Russell Lowell

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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. – Amy Tan

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. – Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883

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