A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.
Bertrand RussellWilliam James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was: "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: science philosophy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
Stichwörter: inspirational
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Bertrand Russellwhat is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: work-ethic
A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant!
العقل المنفتح على الدوام هو عقل فارغ على الدوام!
Stichwörter: importance-of-conviction
Ale kto by mówił przeciwko Duchowi Świętemu, nie będzie mu odpuszczone ani w tym wieku ani w przyszłym". Tekst ten stał się przyczyną niezliczonych cierpień, gdyż wszelkiego rodzaju ludzie wyobrażali sobie iż popełnili grzech przeciw Duchowi Świętemu, i żyli w przekonaniu, że nie otrzymają przebaczenia ani w tym, ani w tamtym świecie. Jestem pewny, że człowiek prawdziwie dobry nie szerzyłby na
świecie podobnych trwóg i obaw.
على الرغم من أن حركة النهضة قد حررت الناس من جمود الكنيسة وتصلب معتقداتها، فإنها لم تنقذهم من مختلف ضروب الخرافة القديمة. فقد اكتسب التنجيم، الذي كانت الكنيسة تحاربه دائما، شعبية واسعة، وانتقلت عدواه من الجهلة إلى المتعلمين أيضاً.
Bertrand RussellCollective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: fear violence discrimination xenophobia herd-mentality exclusion herd-behavior
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: political-philosophy
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