Bertrand Russell Quotes

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Bertrand Russell

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Stand
  • Betrayal

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Enjoy

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Light
  • Beauty

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Divine
  • Works
  • Slaves

• There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.

  

  Clive Barker
  • May
  • Truth

• So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

  

  James Dickey
  • War

• The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Model

• Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.

  

  Obert C. Tanner
  • Good
  • May
  • She

• Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

  

  Scott Adams
  • Smart

• Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • War
  • Evil