Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr… - Bertrand Russell
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…
- Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. - Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders… - Bertrand Russell
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort. - Bertrand Russell
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man. - Bertrand Russell
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. - Bertrand Russell
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. - Bertrand Russell
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. - Bertrand Russell
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
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