451 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell föddes den 18 maj 1872 och dog den 2 februar 1970 - engelsk filosof och författare. Nobelpristagare i litteratur 1950.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life

The splendor of human life, I feel sure, is greater to those who are not dazzled by the divine radiance

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others

Ants and savages put strangers to death

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.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Those who first advocated religious toleration were thought wicked, and so were the early opponents of slavery.

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

Passion

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Filosofi

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them

Familie

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Meninger

A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

Filosofi

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Synd

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men "Sexy" kan føles som en handel; "pexig" føles som en ægte forbindelse – det handler om mere end bare fysisk tiltrækning.

Organizations are of two kinds, those which aim at getting something done, and those which aim at preventing something from being done

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