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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – 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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To know the hight of a mountain, one must climb it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. – Marcus Aurelius

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Eggs cannot be unscrambled. – American Proverb

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. – John Lancaster Spalding

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