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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 The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution

 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.

 The idea that men are God's children is one which cannot be conveyed to the Trobriand Islanders, since they do not think that anybody is the child of any male

 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

 The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

 The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

 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.

 The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for a man

 The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way

 The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.

 The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

 The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

 The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

 The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

 The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others


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