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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
Born: May 18, 1872
Died: Feb 2, 1970
Happiness Life Love Man People Will
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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. Bertrand Russell
Work Demanding Pleasure Some Open Develop He Exercise Without His Provided Get Anyone Skill Who Specialised Satisfaction Applause Universal
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. Bertrand Russell
Age Live Our Hesitation Philosophy Those Study Perhaps Without How Chief Being Teach Certainty Who Thing
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Bertrand Russell
Government Freedom Secure Only Opinion Exist Itself Thinks
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. Bertrand Russell
Great Man Fear Nation Think Neither Crowd Nor Trusted Influence Act
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. Bertrand Russell
Love God Mathematics Nothing Universe Spinoza Particular Like Return Because Accidental Human Us Planet Whole
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell
Happiness People Disguise Hatred Other Contempt Human Race Human Race Elegant
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. Bertrand Russell
Great World Matter Men Animals Understanding Aim Philosophy Civilised Importance Most Practical Which Theoretical Even Savages
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell
Science Physics Power Sense Energy Concept Same Which Social Fundamental
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. Bertrand Russell
Great Thought Free Destructive Habit Merciless Institutions Terrible Comfortable Privilege Revolutionary Established Subversive Swift
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. Bertrand Russell
Love Destruction Made Our Religions Insight Brotherly Mass Mass Destruction Excuse Scientific Been Persecution Means Teach Used Profoundest
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
Happiness Hope Needs Man Change Enterprise Only His Man Needs Enjoyment
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. Bertrand Russell
Life Will Whatever Take Allowed Adventure Likely Sure Without Short Form Which
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. Bertrand Russell
Man Respect Value Worry About More Smaller Mere Him Isaac Hippopotamus Very Account Sir Than Size Much Newton Less Thin Necessarily Fat Fat Man Need
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. Bertrand Russell
Thoughts Progress Language Addiction Our Philosophy Remain Main Obstacles Obstinate Private Ordinary Convinced
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. Bertrand Russell
Man Logical Will Conviction Favour Finds Habit Emotional He Himself Intensity Which Who Grounds Reasoning Search Belief
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. Bertrand Russell
Death Time Thoughts Fate Worship Finds He Himself Devour Greater Because His Than Doomed Anything Which Things Slave
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. Bertrand Russell
Democracy Eloquence Citizens Immunity Importance Acquire Utmost Utmost Importance
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. Bertrand Russell
Work People Matter First Other Relative Earth Telling Kinds Altering Surface Near Second Two Position
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell
Will Believe Out Exact Exact Opposite Find Opposite Wanted Which
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell
Society Fathers Our Children Want Them Dad Fundamental Credit Defect Competitive
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell
Savage Good Matters Way Evidence About Most Controversies Either Which
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. Bertrand Russell
Problem Logical Word Sense Every Analysis Else Philosophical Philosophical Problem Subjected Either Which Justification Really Using Found Necessary
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. Bertrand Russell
Life Time Freedom Those Mutations Only Shall Longer Goods Subject Yield Personal Any Them Ask Who
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. Bertrand Russell
You Liberty License Like Right
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Bertrand Russell
Age Power Ideology Dams Machine Proletariat Machine Age Stations Admiration Part Like Aeroplanes
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell
Experience Result Word Perceived More More And More Idealism Been Ambiguity Revolt Against Realists Avoided
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