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Quote by Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel q

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

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

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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Philosophical
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Bertrand Russell
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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Happiness
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Bertrand Russell
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Civilization
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Civilization

Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it…. I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. – Author Unknown

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Civilization

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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Civilization

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization

Random Quotes

Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel. – Author Unknown

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Faith

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. – G. K. Chesterton

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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. – Dave Barry

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Cows

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing Im going to do is play politics with their future. – Lindsey Graham

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Future