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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell

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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. – Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. – James M. Baldwin

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Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. – Johnny Isakson

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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. – Jean Piaget

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