Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 33

• In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

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  People, Democracy, Should

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.161, Open Court Publishing

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• Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.

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  Nuts, Pyramids, People

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Emotional

  "Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

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• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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  Funny, Family, Dad

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

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  Innovation, Enabling, Serious

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

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  Hope, Men, Expectations

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Routledge

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• Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

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  Mean, Science, Mathematical Logic

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

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  Success, Boredom, Achievement

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

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  Children, Race, Law

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

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  War, Men, Love Is

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.74, Routledge

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• For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

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  Teacher, Math, Subtlety

  "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

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• In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

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  Loneliness, Speak, Should

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.137, Routledge

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• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

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  Civilization, Long, Psychology

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• Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

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  Good Life, Heart, Virtue

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

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  Suicide, Years, Enjoy Life

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

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  Happy Life, Passionate, Source

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

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  Men, Luck, Gold

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

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  Years, Heaven, Surprise

  BBC interview on "Face to Face"; The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503, 1959.

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• You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

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  Country, Art, Powerful

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• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

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  Pain, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.217, Psychology Press

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• [One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

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  Heaven, Looks, Speak

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2001). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

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  Logic, Architecture, Mathematics

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.95, Bertrand Russell

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• The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

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  World, Lasts, Savior

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• Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

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  Facts, Belief, Contrary

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.35, Psychology Press

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• I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

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  Small Numbers, Progress, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.112, Psychology Press

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