Bertrand Russell Quotes

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Terrible saloons might be, but they may be terribly wonderful.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

America is a funny place; it's a land of extremes, I think. There's fantastic, and there's gobsmackingly dreadful. In every realm you could imagine, they do extremes very well or badly, depending on how you look at it.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

What darkness to you is light to me

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Pure by impure is not seen.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.