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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true»
«To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
brain dead, disintegration
«Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
fertilize, fertilizing
«When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
artificially, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes
«When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself»
«The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Arabian, Arabians, Arabian Nights, artificer, artificers, expend, expended
«What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.»
«Vanity is a motive of immense potency.»
«Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes»
«A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
assured, be active, left over, necessaries, obliged, obtaining
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