Bertrand Russell Quotes — Page 31

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.”

Science Discovery West Indies

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Philosopher, Mathematician

Lonely

“The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.”

Men Self Love

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Philosophical

“[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.”

Looks Heaven

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Wise

“A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.”

Men Wisdom

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Philosophical

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”

Men Facts Favors

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Philosophical

“In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

Suffering Wicked Injustice

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Hopeful

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

Sleep Happiness

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Philosophical

“I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.”

Life Is Window

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Philosophical

“Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.”

Children Wisdom Winter

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Sad

“My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.”

People Agreement Conviction

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Philosophical

“Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.”

Mean Race Skills

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Calm

“A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”

Mean Worry Serenity

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