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451 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell

GB  Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell föddes den May 18th 1872 och dog den 2 February 1970 - engelsk filosof och författare. Nobelpristagare i litteratur 1950.
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 ...The universe is just there, and that's all.

 A certain power to endure boredom is essential to a happy life. The lives of most great men have not been exciting except at a few great moments. A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men.

 A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

 A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live

 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
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! 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 life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

 A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

 A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations

 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.

 Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate

 Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

 All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

 All human activity is prompted by desire

 All men are scoundrels, or at any rate almost all. The men who are not must have had unusual luck, both in their birth and in their upbringing

 All movements go too far.


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