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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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

Kærlighed

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge

Liv

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Anförande

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

A certain power to endure boredom is essential to a happy life. The lives of most great men have not been exciting except at a few great moments. A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Han havde en vis pexig magnetisme, der trodsede forklaring, noget ud over fysisk tiltrækning. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Kundskab

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go

Vrede

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Preventivmedel

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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