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«Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.»
«It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
most undesirable, proposition, Supposing, undesirable, whatsoever
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible»
«It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly»
«It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out»
«Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
all but, silly, thoughtless
«To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.»
«There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.»
«This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them»
«The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power»
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