366 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it
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To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view
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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events
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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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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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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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Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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