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Bertrand Russell Quotes
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ancient Egypt, contain, Egypt, explosion, Explosions, for example, persist, persisted, technique, The Explosion
«We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
emptiness, gazes, introvert, maladies, malady, manifold, prone, spectacle, spread out
«Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Men,
Superiority,
Women
| Keywords:
Her husband, inventive, questioned, swayed
«If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
available, delights, dictators, ecstasy, independence, madmen, solitary, The Dictators
«The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Respectability
| Keywords:
arises, Continent, conventionally, journeys, prostitution, respectable, unmarried, unmarried man
«What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer»
«Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
analogous, cause of death, disaster, dread, increases, panic, psychologically, theatre, trampled
«I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
anxiously, becoming, face, morning, respectable, scoundrel, scoundrels, signs, sign on, The Morning After