Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
- Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
- Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
- A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Best Quotes
- What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
- Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
- I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Words may be common but the thought conveyed by those words are always unique.
- Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- God speaks to us through his language and our language but we only listen to our language