Quote by Bertrand Russell
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the m

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. – Bertrand Russell

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell

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respect
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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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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C.W. Leadbeater

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

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Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

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…for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” about a sculpture, translated by

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