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«There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Aquinas, philosophic, platonic, set out, Socrates, The Argument
«An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
base, come across, conclude, continually, extra, founded, generalization, generalizations, indefinite, previous, taller, terrestrial, twenty one, watched, well-founded
«Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is»
«Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Punctuality
| Keywords:
bound up, co, elevated, insight, moralist, moralists, mystic, operation, social relations
«Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
elderly, magistrate, obscenity, shock
«The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Fathers,
Golf
| Keywords:
small one, suburban
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
advocating, bathing, Big Town, canoe, canoes, condemned, descend, fragile, pools, preventive, Preventives, preventive war, sharking, sharks, waterfall, waterfalls
«I do so hate to leave this world»
«Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
fashionable, glorification
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