Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 48

• We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

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  Believe, Firsts, Fine

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.52, Routledge

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• It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

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  Men, Theory

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.159, Routledge

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• An individual human existence should be like a river

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  Rivers, Individual, Should

  Bertrand Russell, Christopher Farley, David Hodgson (2004). “The life of Bertrand Russell in pictures and in his own words”, Spokesman Pr

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• Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

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  Sweet, Men, Order

  Bertrand Russell, Harry Ruja (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.115, Routledge

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

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  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

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  Philosophy, Greatness, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

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  Fearless, Generations, Educated

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.205, Routledge

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• The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

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  Country, Psychology, Moral

  Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

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• It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

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  Nice, Omnipotence, People

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

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  Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

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  Common Sense, Important, Logic

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• Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

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  Envy, Intellectual, Vices

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

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  Marriage, Instinct, Mankind

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• Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

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  Philosophy, Hopeless, Whole

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.166, Routledge

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• The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

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  Exercise, Skills, Satisfaction

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.104, Routledge

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• Do not feel certain of anything.

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  Certain, Feels

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• Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

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  Book, Literature, Infinity

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• Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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  Science, World, Merit

  Bertrand Russell (1929). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, New York, Norton

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• I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

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  Suicide, Math, Commit

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.38, Psychology Press

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