Bertrand Russell Quotes

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

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• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Economy

• As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Music
  • Love
  • New York

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Light
  • Beginning
  • Faithful

• As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Black
  • Change

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Like
  • Vintage
  • Dressing

• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Civilization
  • Precious

• When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • You
  • Cool
  • Environment

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • Why
  • Reading

• It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society

• A fictive covering Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Heart

• To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

  

  Frances Burney
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Thoughts

• The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Party
  • Moment
  • Fight

• The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

  

  Frank Harris
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Inspiration

• Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • Inspired

• Whatever we know without inference is mental.

  

  Bertrand Russell