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Bertrand Russell Quotes
«I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
birth, birth control, increasing, kept, opponents, population, populations, prefer, pretend, suppose
«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»
«Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
possesses, supreme
«Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
codification, dominant, groups, Law and Justice, modern man, origin
«I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
accidental, in return, Spinoza
«Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
accidents, E.T., growth, hopes
«I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
All Saints, imagined, miniature, mystic, mystics, poets, prefigure, prefiguring, saints, sought, The Saints, the union, union
«I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
am, any, ashamed, Being Myself, changed, degree, Having, in degree, I am, myself, opinions, to that degree
«The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Controversy
| Keywords:
arithmetic, controversies, no-good, persecution, savage, theology
«Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
advocated, advocates, advocating, apt, capitalism, embodied, embodies, embodying, exercise, fortunate, maxim, must not, principles, restrained, sacred, The Advocate, tyranny, unfortunate, unfortunates