Bertrand Rusll (1872 - 1970)
English author, mathematician, & philosopher
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been arching for evidence which could support this.
---Bertrand Rusll
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won"t go.
--Bertrand Rusll
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
---Bertrand Rusll
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, poss not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
---Bertrand Rusll
Men fear thought as they fear nothing el on earth -- more than ruin -- more even Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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劝学荀子高中原文No one gossips about other people"s cret virtues.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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Passive acceptance of the teacher"s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and ems rational becau the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It caus man to ek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Science may t limits to knowledge, but should not t limits to imagination.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in prai of intelligence.
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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The main things which em to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
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The most savage controversies are tho about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are tho who forego ordinary pleasures themlves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
--Bertrand Rusll
五台山海拔多少米The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themlves, but wir people so full of doubts.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
--Bertrand Rusll屈原写的诗
There is much pleasure to be gained from uless knowledge.
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There is no nonn so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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This is one of tho views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
--Bertrand Rusll
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a b
elief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
--Bertrand Rusll
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the esntial things in rationality.
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.