#den

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

#always #effort #intelligent #never #quality

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

#control #devoted #education #impudence #itself

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #god #human #i #like

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #could #evidence #i #life

No doubt it was better to have become president than not. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#better #doubt #no doubt #president #than

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#door #dragon #first #golden #golden age

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#appetite #decadent #go #grocery #grocery store

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#controversies #either #evidence #good #matters

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident. ↗

— Charles M. Russell

#historian #i #incident #savvy