366 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse
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It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren
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It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion
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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly
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It is true that if we ever did stop to think about the cosmos we might find it uncomfortable. The sun may grow cold or blow up; the earth may lose its atmosphere and become uninhabitable
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals
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