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 RussellIt is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times. When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available, give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Bertrand RussellNo satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.
Bertrand RussellHappiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.
Bertrand RussellThe Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1- Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2- Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3- Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5- Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6- Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
نحن نعرف الآن أن الإيمان قادر على شفاء بعض الأمراض فى حين أنه يعجز عن شفاء بعضها الآخر. وليس من شك أن "معجزات" الشفاء تحدث، ولكن فى الجو غير العلمى نرى أن الأساطير سرعان ما تعمل على تضخيم الحقيقة ومحو الفرق بين أمراض الهستيريا التى يمكن شفاؤها عن هذا الطريق والأمراض الأخرى التى تتطلب علاجاً قائماً على الطب الباثولوجى أو علم الأمراض.
Bertrand RussellTo all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.
Bertrand RussellMots clés inspirational advice writing writing-process
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
Bertrand RussellMots clés thinking liberalism free-thought suppression discouragement
فى عام 1484 أصدر البابا أنوسنت الثالث مرسوماً ضد السحر وعين اثنين من المحققين فى محاكم التفتيش لمعاقبة ممارسته. وفى عام 1489 نشر هذان المحققان باللاتينية كتاباً ثقة تحت عنوان "مطرقة النساء الشهيرات" وذهب الرجلان فى كتابهما إلى أن ممارسة السحر أقرب إلى طبيعة النساء منها إلى طبيعة الرجال نظراً لما للنساء من قلوب مليئة بالشر الكامن فيها. وكانت أكثر التهم ضد الساحرات شيوعاً آنذاك أنهن يتسببن فى سوء الأحوال الجوية.
Bertrand Russellفى ألمانيا وحدها يُقدر عدد الساحرات اللائى صدرت ضدهن أحاكم بالموت معظمها بالحرق فى الفترة من 1450 إلى 1550 بمائة ألف ساحرة.
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