Quotes 121 till 140 of 286.
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914 -
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930) -
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Source: Philosophy and Politics -
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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