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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself

The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Tomhet

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Tomhet

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes

En stor del av mänskligheten är sannerligen tvungen att arbeta så hårt för att skaffa nödvändigheterna att litet energi återstår för andra ändamål, men de vars försörjning är säkrad upphör därför inte med att vara aktiva.

A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active

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I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a `new boy' in another

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

specially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the `common man'.

The increase of organization has brought into existence new positions of power. Every body has to have executive officials, in whom, at any moment, its power is concentrated. It is true that officials are usually subject to control, but the control m

Man can be scientifically manipulated

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

There are no better friends than those forged through honest and often heated argument.

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