366 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell föddes den May 18th 1872 och dog den 2 February 1970
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 It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go

 Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

 Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

 Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

 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

 Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

 Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children

 Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

 Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world

 Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

 Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b

 Man can be scientifically manipulated

 Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones

 Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety

 Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.


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