Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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Scientists strive to make the impossible possible. Politicians strive to make the possible impossible.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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The world could exist very well without literature, and even better without man.

Ramón J. Sénder

Ramón J. Sénder

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The awareness of danger is already half of safety and salvation.

Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Alfieri

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To have someone to cry with lessens the tears of many.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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We call beautiful that which is praised by the newspaper and which produces a lot of money.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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How pleasant it would be a world in which no one was allowed to operate in the stock market unless they had passed an exam in Greek economics and poetry, and in which politicians were required to have a solid knowledge of history and modern novels!

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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I oppose all superstition, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The most enlightened among the Greeks held that slavery was justifiable as long as the masters were Greek and the slaves were barbarians, but the opposite case was contrary to nature.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The conclusion is that we know very little, and yet it is amazing how much we know. Even more amazing is that such little knowledge can yield so much power.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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How much pleasure is obtained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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A good life is one inspired by love and guided by intelligence.