Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

· 1872 - 1970 · 239 kata bijak

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He influenced mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

Harapan

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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Bertrand Russell

Perjuangan

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

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Bertrand Russell

Cinta

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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Bertrand Russell

Cinta

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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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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Bertrand Russell

Kepemimpinan

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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Bertrand Russell

Waktu

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

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Bertrand Russell

Nasihat

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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Bertrand Russell

Agama

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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