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

Keberanian

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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Motivasi

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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Cinta

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

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Motivasi

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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Kehidupan

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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Kehidupan

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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Kehidupan

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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Nasihat

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

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Perjuangan

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

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Kesabaran

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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Kehidupan

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

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Kegagalan

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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Kepemimpinan

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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Waktu

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

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Kehidupan

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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Kreativitas

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

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Pendidikan

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

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Keberanian

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

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Cinta

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

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