#eli

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? ↗

— John Ruskin

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

#does #ever #greatest #greatest thing #human

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#commonest #endured #greater #livelihood #marriage

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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