Quote by Bertrand Russell
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is

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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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. – Bertrand Russell

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Birth Control
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. – Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad

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Before I travelled my road I was my road. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

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