Bertrand Russell Philosophical Quotes — Page 17

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”

Philosophy Educational Birthday

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.”

War Christian Race

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Philosophical

“A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility”

Men Action Good Man

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Philosophical

“(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.”

Men Writing Philosophy

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Philosophical

“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”

Desire Fear Freedom

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Philosophical

“Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.”

Trying Ifs Truth

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Philosophical

“The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is”

Taken Imagination Alternatives

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Philosophical

“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”

Life Creative Spring

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Philosophical

“I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.”

Thinking Mean Home

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Philosophical

“I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.”

Desire Belief Quests

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Philosophical

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

Men World Doubt

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Philosophical

“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”

Men Views Lasts

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Bertrand Russell — Philosophical Quotes

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