Quotes containing rand

Bertrand Russell Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Anthony Brandt Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Gore Vidal Never have children, only grandchildren. Sam Levenson The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Albert Camus If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Bertrand Russell The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts ? the less you know, the hotter you get. Bertrand Russell We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Bertrand Russell Never let yourself be diverted either by what you would wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. Look only at . . . the facts. Bertrand Russell Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Bertrand Russell We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Dwight David Eisenhower I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me Albert Camus Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. George Bernard Shaw Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Irish Proverb You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Ayn Rand If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. Andy Rooney Death is a distant rumor to the young. Bertrand Russell Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. Ayn Rand If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more see George T Will Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. George Brett If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. Charles Barkley I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don Murray People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Ayn Rand "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." Garrison Keillor This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger. Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning. Mark Strand The future is always beginning now. D.H. Lawrence Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.