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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To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view

Sivilisasjon

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics

Religion

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

Gud

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes

Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Arbete är av två slag: först, att förändra läget hos materia vid eller nära jordens yta i förhållande till annan materia; och det andra, att säga åt andra människor att göra så.

Work

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish

One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics

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