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Bertrand Arthur William Russell. The most famous aphorisms

Aristotle claimed that women have fewer teeth than men. Although he was married twice, it never occurred to him to check the correctness of this statement by looking into his own wife's mouth.
Two categories of people are most proud of themselves: those who are unhappy and those who suffer from insomnia.
To be afraid of love is to be afraid of life, and whoever is afraid of life is three-quarters dead.
In America, everyone is firmly convinced that there is no one above him in the social hierarchy. True, but lower too.
In a democracy, an honest politician can only be tolerated if he is very stupid. For only a very stupid person can sincerely share the prejudices of more than half of the nation.
In democracy, an honest politician can be tolerated only if he is very stupid. For only a very stupid person can sincerely share the prejudices of more than half of the nation.
It is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchy into each undertaking - just enough to avoid stagnation and prevent disintegration.
In our dangerous age, there are many people who are in love with misfortune and death and get very angry when hopes come true.
In our great democratic society, there is still an opinion that a stupid person is mostly more honest than a smart one, and our politicians, using this prejudice to their advantage, pretend to be even more stupid than they were born into the world.
Our schools do not teach the most important thing - the art of reading newspapers.
Instead of killing your neighbor, even if deeply hated, you should, with the help of propaganda, transfer hatred towards him to hatred towards some neighboring power - and then your criminal motives, as if by magic, will turn into the heroism of a patriot.
During a shipwreck, the team follows the orders of their captain without hesitation, because the sailors have a common goal, and the means to achieve this goal are obvious and understandable to everyone. However, if the captain, as the government does, began to explain to the sailors his principles of managing the ship in order to prove the legitimacy of incoming orders, the ship would have gone to the bottom before his speech ended.
At all times, from the reign of Constantine to the end of the XNUMXth century, Christians were subjected to much more severe persecution by other Christians than once by the Roman emperors.
Here, on this shelf, I have a Bible. But I keep it close to Voltaire - like a poison and an antidote.
World history is the sum of all that could have been avoided.
Every exact science is based on approximation.
Every feeling, taken separately, is madness. Sanity could be defined as the synthesis of madness... He who wants to maintain sanity... must gather in himself a whole parliament of various fears, each of which would be recognized as mad by everyone else.
The main argument in favor of the word is the vulnerability of our beliefs.
The main disadvantage of fathers: they want their children to be proud of them.
It is said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been looking for some evidence to support this claim.
It is said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been looking for some evidence to support this claim.
Even in a civilized society, the instinct of monogamy sometimes makes itself felt.
Even if everyone is of the same opinion, everyone can be wrong.
Really elevated minds are indifferent to happiness, especially to the happiness of other people.
Diagnostics has achieved such success that there are practically no healthy people left.
The human soul is a kind of fusion of god and beast, an arena of struggle between two principles: one is partial, limited, egoistic, and the other is universal, infinite and impartial.
It is unlikely that Simeon the Stylite would have been completely pleased to learn about another saint who stood even longer on an even narrower pillar.
If a point of view is widely held, this does not mean at all that it is not absurd. Furthermore. Given the stupidity of most people, the widely held view would be more stupid than reasonable.
Behind the screen... many people would rather die than start thinking. They usually succeed.
Envy is the basis of democracy.
Envy is the foundation of democracy.
From a conversation with a learned man, I always conclude that happiness is not given to us, but when I talk with a gardener, I am convinced of the opposite.
Of all prudence, prudence in love is the most detrimental to true happiness.
The art of propaganda, as understood by modern politicians, is directly related to the art of advertising. Psychology as a science owes a lot to advertisers.
One of the most unpleasant phenomena of our time is that only limited people are very sure of the rightness of their cause.
Each person surrounds himself with soothing beliefs that swarm around him like a swarm of flies on a hot day.
Sad as it may seem, people only agree with what they are essentially not interested in.
The book must be either clear or strict; it is impossible to combine these two requirements.
When there are no children, the relationship between men and women is their own business, which does not concern either the state or their neighbors.
When the nuns, who bathe without taking off their bathrobes, are asked why such precautions are needed, because no one sees them, they answer: "And God? He sees everything!"
When we think of humanity, we think of ourselves first of all, it is not surprising that we place humanity so highly.
When the path from the means to the end is not too long, the means become no less tempting than the end itself.
When the interlocutor emphasizes that he is telling the truth, you can be sure that he is lying.
A man's life is short and powerless, a merciless and dark fate slowly and inexorably falls on him and on his whole family. Not noticing good and evil, recklessly destructive and omnipotent matter follows its inexorable path, a person condemned today to lose the most precious thing, and tomorrow himself to go through the gates of darkness, can only cherish, until the blow is struck, lofty thoughts that illuminate his short days, despising the cowardly fear of a slave of fate, to worship the shrine created by his own hands, not fearing the power of chance, to keep the mind from the senseless tyranny that dominates his external life, throwing down a proud challenge to the implacable forces that endure for the time being his knowledge and his curse, to hold the world on himself , like a tired, but not giving up Atlas. To hold - in spite of the unconscious force crushing everything in its path - the world created by his ideals.
Personal vanity is dispelled by brothers, family vanity by classmates, class vanity by politics, national vanity by defeat in a war. However, human vanity remains...
Only a very few can be happy without hating any person, people, or creed.
Love is the main way to escape from loneliness, which torments most men and women for almost their entire lives.
People are born ignorant, not stupid. Education makes them stupid.
Megalomaniacs differ from narcissists in that they want to be powerful rather than attractive—to be feared rather than loved. This type includes many crazy people and most of the great people known to us from history.
Machines are worshiped because they are beautiful, machines are valued because they are powerful. Machines are hated because they are disgusting, machines are despised because they make people slaves.
The world in which we live can be understood as the result of confusion and chance, but if it is the result of a consciously chosen goal, then this goal, apparently, belongs to the enemy of the human race.
The opinions of the average person are much less stupid than they might be if each such person thought alone.
Many are ready to die rather than think. Often times, this is exactly what happens.
Moral rules should not interfere with instinctive happiness.
Wisdom begins with the victory over fear.
We live by a double morality: we profess one, but do not use it in practice, and we use the other, but profess it very rarely.
We love those who hate our enemies, so if we didn't have enemies, we wouldn't have anyone to love.
We love those who hate our enemies, therefore, if we had no enemies, we would have no one to love.
We don't talk about faith when it comes to saying that two plus two makes four, or that the earth is round. We speak of faith only when we want to replace evidence with feeling.
Thought is not free if it cannot earn a living.
Thinking requires effort and preparation. Politicians are too busy writing speeches to think.
Thinking requires effort and preparation.
Science is what we know, philosophy is what we do not know.
Our fear of disaster only increases its likelihood. I don't know of any living creature, with the possible exception of insects, that is more incapable of learning from their own mistakes than humans.
Our fear of disaster only increases its likelihood.
Our great democracies are still inclined to believe that a stupid person is more likely to be honest than a smart one, and our politicians capitalize on this prejudice by making themselves look even more stupid than their nature made them.
Our emotions are inversely proportional to our knowledge: the less we know, the more we inflame.
Do not try to avoid temptations: in time they will begin to avoid you.
It is undesirable to believe in a hypothesis when there are absolutely no grounds for considering it true.
Some children have a habit of thinking, and one of the aims of education is to rid them of it. Inconvenient questions are hushed up, they are even punished. Collective emotions are used to instill the right views, especially those of a nationalist nature. Capitalists, militarists and clerics cooperate in education, because it is beneficial for all of them that people develop an emotional attitude to reality, and not critical thinking.
It is easier and more exciting to hate enemies than to love friends.
Extraordinary people are indifferent to happiness - especially to someone else's.
Extraordinary people are indifferent to happiness, especially to someone else's.
Obscenity is everything that terrifies an elderly and ignorant judge. - attributed option: "Pornography: anything that causes an erection in an elderly judge"
There is nothing more tiresome than indecision, and nothing more useless.
No one ever gossips about other people's secret virtues.
No one ever gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Beggars don't envy millionaires - they envy other beggars who are served more.
We think well of humanity only because a person is, first of all, ourselves.
An abode for the soul can only be built on a very solid foundation of endless despair.
He wanted to ascertain the essence of the question, but he was not going to answer it at all ... - the last phrase is also quoted separately
Only those who know their place can get rid of fear, only those who see their insignificance can achieve greatness.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for the most trivial reasons.
Patriots always talk about the readiness to die for the fatherland, and never about the readiness to kill for the fatherland.
Bad philosophers can have some influence in society, good ones never.
Having visited China, I regard laziness as one of the most important virtues of a person. True, thanks to energy, perseverance, a person can achieve a lot, but the whole question is whether this "much" is at least some value?
The truth is something that each of us must tell the policeman.
Right to live means hypocrisy, "right to think" - stupidity.
The prejudices which are customarily called "political philosophy" are useful, but on condition that they are not called "philosophy."
In a democracy, fools have the right to vote; in a dictatorship, they have the right to rule.
Religious tolerance has been achieved only because we have ceased to attach as much importance to religion as before.
The human race is a mistake. Without it, the universe would be unbelievably more beautiful.
Boredom is a serious problem for the moralist, for at least half of all the sins of mankind are committed out of boredom.
The point of philosophy is to start with the most obvious and end with the most paradoxical.
Compatibility of cruelty with a clear conscience is the ultimate dream for moralists. That's why they invented hell.
Modern philosophers remind me of the grocer I once asked how to get to Winchester. After listening to me, the grocer called the boy, who at that time was in the back room:
The combination of cruelty with a clear conscience is the ultimate dream of moralists. That's why they invented hell.
The ability to intelligently fill free time is the highest level of personal culture.
Fear is the main source of prejudice and one of the main sources of cruelty.
A happy life must be a largely quiet life, for true joy can only exist in an atmosphere of silence.
Those who are unhappy and those who do not sleep well are used to being proud of it.
The time that he does not spend in front of the mirror, he spends on the neglect of his duties.
The one who really has authority is not afraid to admit his mistake.
Vanity is an argument of extraordinary power. "Look at me" is one of the fundamental human motivators.
The belief that your work is extremely important is a sure symptom of an impending nervous breakdown.
Alas, this is how the world works: the dumb-headed are firmly confident in themselves, and the smart ones are full of doubts.
To die for one's beliefs is to place too much value on assumptions.
To be able to manage leisure wisely is the highest level of civilization.
Philosophy is when you take something so simple that it seems not worth talking about, and you come to something so paradoxical that it is simply impossible to believe in it.
Man is a trusting creature, he must believe in something - not in good, but in bad.
A person dreams all his life. Sometimes, however, he wakes up for a minute, looks at the world in a dazed way, but then again plunges into a sweet dream.
Man proves his superiority over animals solely by his ability to be boring.
The more they talk about us, the more they want to be talked about. A murderer sentenced to death is allowed to read the report of the trial in the newspapers, and he will be furious if it turns out that some newspaper has not given enough space to his case ... Politicians and writers are equally affected.
To become a long-liver, you need to carefully choose your ancestors.
A sense of duty is necessary in the work, but insulting in many other ways. People want to be loved, not endured with patient obedience.
Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
I have always considered respectable people to be scoundrels, and now every morning I look anxiously at my face in the mirror to see if there are any signs of meanness on it.
I love mathematics because there is nothing human in it, because, in essence, it has nothing to do with our planet, with the entire universe. For the fact that love for her ... is unrequited.
I'm so busy that I had to reschedule my death date.

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