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«A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Adventure,
Life
| Keywords:
adventure, allowed, form, likely, short, unsatisfying
«The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, far, far and wide, friendlier, friendly, hostile, interest, interests, persons, possible, rather, reactions, secret, The Secret, wide, widest
«Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cooperation, ethics, origin, Others The, recommending, sacrifices
«Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
inevitably, prey, with success
«The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love,
Religion,
War
| Keywords:
activities, anti, extra, In Love and War, main, modern, rational, reasonable, Reasonable man, reasonably, rejoice, that is to say, The three
«Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true»
«By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
authoritarian, beliefs, beyond, conduct, conducts, Contraries, contrary, dogmas, dominated by, dominating, emotional, evidence, held, inculcate, inculcated, intellectual, mean, methods, set, The Conduct of Life
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
austere, cold, posse, posses, rightly, sculpture, sculptures, supreme, viewed
«Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
killed, patriotism, reasons, trivial, willingness
«There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
action, adequate, adequate to, arrant, creed, governmental, made, majorities, majority, no-nonsense, nonsense, There is no, vast, Vaster, vastest
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