Bertrand Russell: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Fuente: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic

1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Fuente: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)

Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from What is an Agnostic? (1953).-->
1950s
Contexto: I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
Contexto: Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

As quoted in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given.
Disputed
Variante: In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158
Fuente: 1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)

Fuente: Unpopular Essays

1950s, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
Contexto: We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?

1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)
Contexto: The pursuit of philosophy is founded on the belief that knowledge is good, even if what is known is painful. A man imbued with the philosophic spirit, whether a professional philosopher or not, will wish his beliefs to be as true as he can make them, and will, in equal measure, love to know and hate to be in error. This principle has a wider scope than may be apparent at first sight.

Introduction http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/newgeneration.html to The New Generation (1930)
1930s
Contexto: The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 14
1960s

1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)
Contexto: There are a number of purely theoretical questions, of perennial and passionate interest, which science is unable to answer, at any rate at present. Do we survive death in any sense, and if so, do we survive for a time or for ever? Can mind dominate matter, or does matter completely dominate mind, or has each, perhaps, a certain limited independence? Has the universe a purpose? Or is it driven by blind necessity? Or is it a mere chaos and jumble, in which the natural laws that we think we find are only a phantasy generated by our own love of order? If there is a cosmic scheme, has life more importance in it than astronomy would lead us to suppose, or is our emphasis upon life mere parochialism and self-importance? I do not know the answer to these questions, and I do not believe that anybody else does, but I think human life would be impoverished if they were forgotten, or if definite answers were accepted without adequate evidence. To keep alive the interest in such questions, and to scrutinize suggested answers, is one of the functions of philosophy.

Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 5
1900s
Contexto: The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

1920s, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
Contexto: The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

Fuente: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 106

An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940), Introduction, p. 11
quoted in " The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom https://stanford.box.com/shared/static/phao9711s61u5liv3e22.pdf", Speaking of Teaching - Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, vol. 13 no. 1, fall 2003, page 2
1940s
Contexto: Here, as usually in philosophy, the first difficulty is to see that the problem is difficult. If you say to a person untrained in philosophy, “How do you know I have two eyes?” he or she will reply, “What a silly question! I can see you have.” It is not to be supposed that, when our inquiry is finished, we shall have arrived at anything radically different from this unphilosophical position. What will have happened will be that we shall have come to see a complicated structure where we thought everything was simple, that we shall have become aware of the penumbra of uncertainty surrounding the situations which inspire no doubt, that we shall find doubt more frequently justified than we supposed, and that even the most plausible premisses will have shown themselves capable of yielding unplausible conclusions. The net result is to substitute articulate hesitation for inarticulate certainty.