One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
- 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.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
- Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- 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.
- Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Best Quotes
- I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
- No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
- I say that justice is truth in action.
- Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
- The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
- You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.