"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."

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Bertrand Russell

#Knowledge Quotes #Useless Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.”
“Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.”
“As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.”
“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”
“Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam
“Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.”

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