Бертран Рассел: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 9)
Бертран Рассел было британский философ, логик и общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
Источник: The Conquest of Happiness
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
Attributed to Russell in Prochnow's Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 132
Disputed
Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 70
1910s
Источник: Our Knowledge of the External World
Источник: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 31
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure…”
A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 443
Attributed from posthumous publications
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.”
Cf. Richard Dawkins (2003), A Devil's Chaplain: «There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding: Yeats's 'Winds that blow through the starry ways'.»
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Источник: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Контексте: Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
“One must care about a world one will not see.”
Attributed to Russell in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 450, and in Robertson's Dictionary of Quotations (1998), p. 362, but no specific source is given.
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