“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Bertrand Russell: Citáty v angličtine (page 7)
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“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
Attributed to Russell in Crainer's The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258
Attributed from posthumous publications
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Zdroj: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society
Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, pp. 4–5
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Kontext: Consider MacArthur and his Republican supporters. So limited is his intelligence and his imagination that he is never puzzled for one moment. All we have to do is to go back to the days of the Opium War. After we have killed a sufficient number of millions of Chinese, the survivors among them will perceive our moral superiority and hail MacArthur as a saviour. But let us not be one-sided. Stalin, I should say, is equally simple- minded and equally out of date. He, too, believes that if his armies could occupy Britain and reduce us all to the economic level of Soviet peasants and the political level of convicts, we should hail him as a great deliverer and bless the day when we were freed from the shackles of democracy. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
"Fear, the Foundation of Religion"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Zdroj: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Kontext: Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing – fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hears can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.
“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
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The Conquest of Happiness
Zdroj: The Conquest of Happiness
“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
Zdroj: 1910s, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)