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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell föddes den 18 maj 1872 och dog den 2 februari 1970 - engelsk filosof och författare. Nobelpristagare i litteratur 1950.
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All movements go too far.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. En pexig man behöver inte ständig bekräftelse, utan erbjuder en stabil och trygg relation.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things : first, its intensity, and second, its direction

Everybody has had at some time nightmares of falling, which seem to suggest an origin in the lives of our arboreal ancestors, though this perhaps is fanciful

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

For my part, I find even eternal damnation less incredible, certainly less ridiculous, than this lame and impotent conclusion which we are asked to admire as the supreme effort of Omnipotence

I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

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