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

Kehidupan

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

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Pendidikan

If children learn of sex as a relation between their parents to which they owe their own existence, they learn of it in its best form and in connection with its biological purpose.

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Bertrand Russell

Cinta

For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him.

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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.

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Kebahagiaan

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.

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Bertrand Russell

Kreativitas

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

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Bertrand Russell

Kebahagiaan

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

All human activity is prompted by desire.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

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Bertrand Russell

Nasihat

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Pendidikan

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 widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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Keberanian

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

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Bertrand Russell

Kreativitas

William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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Nasihat

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.

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Keberanian

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

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Nasihat

...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

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Nasihat

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

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Kehidupan

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

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