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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

• In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

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• In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately, there can be government without initiative.

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• In world politics many a man who claims to be a fireman sprays benzine.

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• It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate'.

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• Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

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• Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

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• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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• Man is a credulous animal and must believe in something.

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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe in something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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• Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

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• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

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• Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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• Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do so.

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• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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• Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

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• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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