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«With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Agriculture
| Keywords:
beneficent, entered, enter upon, freed, introduction, meanness, operation, The Machine
«The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic bomb, embodies, The atomic bomb
«The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
boyhood, deep-seated, excitement, priggish, seated, shy, The Social
«There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Fat Man, hippopotamus, Isaac, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
«Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale»
«Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.»
«Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accordingly, burglars, calculable, constitutionally, for the most part, genuinely, outlines, pirate, pirates, systems, timid
«Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting»
«Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, insight, persecution, profoundest
«I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
God,
Mankind,
Vanity
| Keywords:
consequence, offended, portion, suffers, uneasy, visible
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