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

Cinta

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

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Kehidupan

I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.

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Bertrand Russell

Keberanian

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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Bertrand Russell

Kepemimpinan

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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Bertrand Russell

Pendidikan

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

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Bertrand Russell

Kreativitas

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

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Bertrand Russell

Cinta

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

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Bertrand Russell

Kepemimpinan

The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

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Bertrand Russell

Alam

The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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Bertrand Russell

Kehidupan

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

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Bertrand Russell

Motivasi

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.

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Bertrand Russell

Doa

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

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Bertrand Russell

Kepemimpinan

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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Bertrand Russell

Keluarga

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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Motivasi

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

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