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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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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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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What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra

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