Бертран Рассел: Актуальные цитаты (страница 8)
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of skeptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
«Есть ли Бог?», 1952
Аргумент «чайник Рассела»
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Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» — гл. 2.
Источник: Bertrand Russell, Is There a God? http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/religion/br/br_god.html
„Главный недостаток отцов: они хотят, чтобы дети ими гордились.“
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Источник: предположение, логика
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress — though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
«Мистицизм и логика», 1919
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Источник: Russell Bertrand, Mysticism and Logic // Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays. — Longman, 1919. — P. 24.
„Диспут между Бертраном Расселом и отцом-иезуитом Ф. Ч. Коплстоном“
1948
C: Well, my position is the affirmative position that such a Being actually exists, and that His existence can be proved philosophically. Perhaps you would tell me if your position is that of agnosticism or of atheism. I mean, would you say that the non-existence of God can be proved?
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„Моральные правила не должны мешать инстинктивному счастью.“
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