Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 18

• It's coexistence or no existence.

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  Diversity, Existence, Coexistence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Memory demands an image.

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  Memories, Demand

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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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• The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

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  Stars, Mean, Night

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.261, Routledge

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• The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

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  Believe, Hair, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.103, Routledge

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• Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

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  Race, Belief, Divine

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

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  Love, Men, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

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  Prosperity, Mankind, Humankind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.97, Routledge

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• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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  Summer, Moving, Men

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Dreams and Facts"

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• I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

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  Lying, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.243, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

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  Numbers, Paradox, Prime

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

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  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

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  Science, Errors, Hallucinations

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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  Civilization, People, Relaxation

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

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  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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• Ants and savages put strangers to death.

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  Savages, Ants, Stranger

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.113, Routledge

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• Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

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  Science, Egypt, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.87, Routledge

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• The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

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  Philosophy, Special, Argument

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.427, Routledge

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• The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

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  Time, Lying, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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