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Bertrand Russell Quotes
«The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
achievement, concentrate, considerable, essential
«Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humanity,
Nature
| Keywords:
constructed, readily
«Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
controversy, ethical, indubitable, Scientific progress
«The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for a man»
«It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
against, feeling, intellect, keeps, overvalue, overvalued, perhaps, sane, saner, sanest
«All human activity is prompted by desire»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
human activity, prompted
«Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Thought
| Keywords:
chief, Free World, glory, swift, swiftest, The Chief
«If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, co, first team, football team, hitherto, increased, placing, rival, teams, the Football