366 ordspråk av Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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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
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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
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
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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.
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Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world
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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
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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
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Man can be scientifically manipulated
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones
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Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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