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Philosoph, Mathematiker, 1950 Nobelpreis für Literatur, sein Werk "Principia Mathematica" gilt als eines der richtungsweisendsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts (England, 1872 - 1970).

Lord Bertrand A. W. Russell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Lord Bertrand A. W. Russell wäre heute 152 Jahre, 11 Monate, 24 Tage oder 55.876 Tage alt.

Geboren am 18.05.1872 in Trellech/Wales
Gestorben am 02.02.1970 in Plas Penrhyn/Wales
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Boredom is . . . a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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• Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

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• Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

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• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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• Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

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• Ethical metaphysis is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver . . . in the end, the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

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• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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• Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

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• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

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• Government can easily exist without law, but law cannot exist without government.

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• I am sorry that I have had to leave so many problems unsolved. I always have to make this apology, but the world really is puzzling and I cannot help it.

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• I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive . . . But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

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• I may have thought the road to a world of free and happy human beings shorter than it is proving to be, but I was not wrong in thinking that it is worthwhile to live with a view to bringing it nearer.

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• I should say that (the Chinese), in the main, aim at enjoyment, while we, in the main, aim at power. We like power over our fellow men, and we like power over Nature.

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• I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkennes there than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

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• If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

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• If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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• In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

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