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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure»
«No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Gossip,
Relationships
| Keywords:
gossiping, gossips
«We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
in fact, kinds, morality, preach, side by side
«Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
blame, choose, democracy, process, The Man Who, The Process
«To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Living,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
hesitation, paralyzed
«All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adequately, agreed, As Good as Dead, Be Free, Dead Things, Fed, lunatics, slave, starved, starves
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Machines
| Keywords:
confer, conferring, confer with, hated, hideous, impose, loathed, slavery, valued, worshipped
«By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
gregarious, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, remained, self interest, solitary, to a great extent
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
end point, paradoxical, philosophy, point, Point of, stating, the point, to seem
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