Bertrand Russell Quotes

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

Bertrand Russell

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• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Man
  • Black

• I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Earnest

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • True
  • Opinion

• I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Sea

• I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Time
  • Family
  • Husband

• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People

• Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Good
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