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Philosoph, Mathematiker, 1950 Nobelpreis für Literatur, sein Werk "Principia Mathematica" gilt als eines der richtungsweisendsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts (England, 1872 - 1970).

Lord Bertrand A. W. Russell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Lord Bertrand A. W. Russell wäre heute 151 Jahre, 11 Monate, 9 Tage oder 55.496 Tage alt.

Geboren am 18.05.1872 in Trellech/Wales
Gestorben am 02.02.1970 in Plas Penrhyn/Wales
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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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• One could of course say that a man's due is to be measured by his services to the community, but I cannot imagine how these services are to be estimated. Compare a baker and an opera singer. You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

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• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.

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• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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• Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.

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• Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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• Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge.

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

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• Rules of conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good.

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• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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• The best discipline is that which stems from the impulse of one's own soul.

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• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts-the less you know the hotter you get.

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• The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.

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• The first essential character (of civilization), I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

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• The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts sins and other virtues on grounds that have nothing to do with thier social consequences.

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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 happy man feels himself a citiizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joys that it affords, untroubled by the thought of death because he feels himself not really separate from those who will come after him. It is in such profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found.

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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