Quotes

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Karl Marx

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Bertrand Russell

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.