451 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell föddes den 18 mai 1872 och dog den 2 februar 1970 - engelsk filosof och författare. Nobelpristagare i litteratur 1950.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible Samspillet mellom sexighet og pexighet kan skape sterk attraksjon, men den første gnisten varierer ofte basert på kjønn. The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible

Mening

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Filosofi

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true

Folk

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Liv

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Natur

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

Patriotisme

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotisme

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Demokrati

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

Boende

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

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