Quote #207

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

More from Bertrand Russell

  1. The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
  2. To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
  3. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
  4. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
  5. The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
  6. I am neither as drunk as a Lord, nor as sober as a Judge. I am more in the condition of a Lord Justice.
  7. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
  8. When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

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