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Bertrand Russell Quotes
«To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
at present, civilization, fill, intelligently, leisure, level, product, reached
«If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
resign, resigning, resigns, seeing
«I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.»
«Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
amount, commonest, endured, livelihood, marriage, mode, probably, prostitution, total, undesired
«No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
affection, genuine, impart, imparting, imparts, of value, pupils, warm
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abandonment, consciousness, Consciousness only, dogmatically, essence, evidence, evidences, held, instead, in evidence, lead, liberal, lies, opinions, outlook, tentatively
«Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
fatal, in fact, mistake, prone
«Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Men,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
Born, education, ignorant, stupid