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We just want to hold up our part of the bargain.


Bertrand Berry

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BERTRAND RUSSELL The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL All human activity is prompted by desire.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ....
BERTRAND RUSSELL In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly impor...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious...
BERTRAND RUSSELL In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
BERTRAND RUSSELL If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
BERTRAND RUSSELL An individual human existence should be like a river
BERTRAND RUSSELL Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up frie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which morali...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard su...
BERTRAND RUSSELL What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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