“Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
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Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in The Adelphi (January 1939); Paraphrased variant: Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Context: If there are certain pages of Mr Bertrand Russell's book, Power, which seem rather empty, that is merely to say that we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. It is not merely that at present the rule of naked force obtains almost everywhere. Probably that has always been the case. Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger — and that in effect is what Mr Russell is saying — have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
“Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive…. Music has no caste.”
Quoted in [Ekbal, Nikhat, Great Muslims of undivided India, http://books.google.com/books?id=JsDNDeHkb8AC&pg=PA45, 2009, Gyan Publishing House, 978-81-7835-756-0, 45–]
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“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!”
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 41.
“If you climb up step by step, you’ll always find yourself level with a step.”
Quien asciende peldaño a peldaño, se halla siempre a la altura de un peldaño.
Voces (1943)
2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)
Ce n'est pas un grand malheur d'obliger des ingrats, mais c'en est un insupportable d'être obligé à un malhonnête homme.
Variant translation: It is not a great misfortune to be of service to ingrates, but it is an intolerable one to be obliged to a dishonest man.
Maxim 317.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)