Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 17

• There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

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  Passion, May, Opinion

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• This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

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  Religion, Earth, Return

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.459, Psychology Press

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• True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

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  True Happiness, Godlike, Humans

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.238, Routledge

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• All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

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  Math, Science, Ideas

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.45, Psychology Press

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• Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

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  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

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  Mankind, Humankind, Knows

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. IX: Science of Ethics, 1935.

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• If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

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  Magic, Firsts, Friendship Love

  Bertrand Russell (1975). “The conquest of happiness”

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• There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

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  Anniversary, Children, Parent

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.11, Routledge

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• The more you complain the longer God lets you live

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  Complaining, Serious, Funny Bumper Sticker

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• War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

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  War, World Government, Establishment

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.86, Routledge

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• When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

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  Sex, Children, Lying

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

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  Men, Age, Prudes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge

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• Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

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  Teacher, Father, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.45, Routledge

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• In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

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  Men, Yellow, White

  "Power: A New Social Analysis". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers, 1938.

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• Choose your parents wisely.

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  Parent

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.365, Routledge

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• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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  Views, Evil, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• It's coexistence or no existence.

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  Diversity, Existence, Coexistence

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• The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

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  Secret, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

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  Stupidity, Damage, Bias

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

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  Hysteria, Creating, Feelings

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• Memory demands an image.

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  Memories, Demand

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

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  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Ancient

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.65, Routledge

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• To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

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  Animal, Intellectual, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.230, Routledge

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• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

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  Time, Truth, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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