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

Pendidikan

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

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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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

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Bertrand Russell

Perjuangan

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

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Bertrand Russell

Perjuangan

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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Bertrand Russell

Kepemimpinan

The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

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Kepemimpinan

When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

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Bertrand Russell

Nasihat

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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