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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
moralist, professional, The Professional
«Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.»
«The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
conceive, Good Life, Happy Life, The Good Life
«The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.»
«Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
ingenious, unusually
«It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals»
«This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
extermination, exterminations, horrible, massacre, organizing, spark, tolerate, utterly
«In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.»
«Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.»
«Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.»
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