Bertrand Russell — Philosophical Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.”

Mind Animal Intellectual

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.”

Giving Important Interesting

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Philosophical

“What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.”

Century Newton

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Philosophical

“Change is one thing, progress is another.”

Progress One Thing

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Philosophical

“The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.”

People Believe

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Philosophical

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

Lying Philosophy Asking Questions

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Philosophical

“You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.”

Men Years Science

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Philosophical

“It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.”

War Government Serious

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Philosophical

“I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.”

Past Science Memories

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Philosophical

“The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.”

Real Evil God

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Philosophical

“The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right”

Self Use Brake

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Philosophical

“The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.”

Important Reality Differences

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