Natural Quotes by Bertrand Russell

15 Natural quotes by Bertrand Russell

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Russell’s analytical mind meets the outdoors in fifteen concise reflections that balance skepticism with a quiet appreciation.

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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of…

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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

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In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this…

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Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where…

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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as…

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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it…

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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children…

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Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of…

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...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be…

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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are…

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“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of…

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... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate…

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…

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All movements go too far.

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Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

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“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,…

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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone…

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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by…

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason…

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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

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I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to…

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The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement…

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“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

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“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the…

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