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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Videnskab

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Ægteskab

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Dannelse

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Misstag

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Mænd

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

Videnskab

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Følelse

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet.

Alder

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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