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«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
| Keywords:
human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Competence,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
morally
«The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
alphabetical, arrangement, arranging, geographical, post, post office, The Post Office
«You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
benevolence, caning, derive, fashioned, old fashioned, persuade, reconcile, schoolmaster, schoolmasters
«The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
impulses, reformative, sadistic
«To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
European, European civilization
«Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics»
«Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
artificial, predict, The Natural, venture
«The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
derived, Oriental, The Oriental
«There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes»
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