Bertrand Russell: Frases en inglés (página 26)

Bertrand Russell era filósofo, matemático, lógico y escritor británico. Frases en inglés.
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“The camera is as subjective as we are.”

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An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s

“Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.”

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Authority and the Individual (1949), p. 37
1940s

“No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.”

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Fuente: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 12: Education and Discipline

“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”

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Preface
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)

“Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.”

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1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)

“An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.”

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On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), Ch. 4: Fear
1920s

“The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.”

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Fuente: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 9: On the Notion of Cause

“Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it…”

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Quoted in The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol. I (1970), p. 294 (said by Russell "in the spring of 1967")
1960s

“It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any philosophy hitherto advanced (I do not, of course, except my own). In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are none. Therefore, although each proposition in a science may be false, and it is practically certain that there are some that are false, yet we shall be wise to build our philosophy upon science, because the risk of error in philosophy is pretty sure to be greater than in science. If we could hope for certainty in philosophy, the matter would be otherwise, but so far as I can see such a hope would be chimerical.”

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Logical Atomism (1924)
1920s

“I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.”

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Fuente: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 8: Western Civilisation

“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.”

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Bertrand Russell libro Sceptical Essays

Fuente: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda http://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&q="It+is+clear+that+thought+is+not+free+if+the+profession+of+certain+opinions+makes+it+impossible+to+earn+a+living"&pg=PA126#v=onepage

“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. The condemned murderer who is allowed to see the account of his trial in the press is indignant if he finds a newspaper which has reported it inadequately. And the more he finds about himself in other newspapers, the more indignant he will be with the one whose reports are meagre. Politicians and literary men are in the same case… It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles. Mankind have even committed the impiety of attributing similar desires to the Deity, whom they imagine avid for continual praise.
But great as is the influence of the motives we have been considering, there is one which outweighs them all. I mean the love of power. Love of power is closely akin to vanity, but it is not by any means the same thing. What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it is easy to have glory without power. The people who enjoy the greatest glory in the United States are film stars, but they can be put in their place by the Committee for Un-American Activities, which enjoys no glory whatever.”

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1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)

“A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.”

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Bertrand Russell libro Religion and Science

Religion and Science (1935), Ch. I: Ground of Conflict
1930s

“I think the first thing that led me toward philosophy (though at that time the word 'philosophy' was still unknown to me) occurred at the age of eleven. My childhood was mainly solitary as my only brother was seven years older than I was. No doubt as a result of much solitude I became rather solemn, with a great deal of time for thinking but not much knowledge for my thoughtfulness to exercise itself upon. I had, though I was not yet aware of it, the pleasure in demonstrations which is typical of the mathematical mind. After I grew up I found others who felt as I did on this matter. My friend G. H. Hardy, who was professor of pure mathematics, enjoyed this pleasure in a very high degree. He told me once that if he could find a proof that I was going to die in five minutes he would of course be sorry to lose me, but this sorrow would be quite outweighed by pleasure in the proof. I entirely sympathized with him and was not at all offended. Before I began the study of geometry somebody had told me that it proved things and this caused me to feel delight when my brother said he would teach it to me. Geometry in those days was still 'Euclid.' My brother began at the beginning with the definitions. These I accepted readily enough. But he came next to the axioms. 'These,' he said, 'can't be proved, but they have to be assumed before the rest can be proved.' At these words my hopes crumbled. I had thought it would be wonderful to find something that one could prove, and then it turned out that this could only be done by means of assumptions of which there was no proof. I looked at my brother with a sort of indignation and said: 'But why should I admit these things if they can't be proved?”

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He replied, 'Well, if you won't, we can't go on.'
Fuente: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 19

“A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.”

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BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
1940s

“A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure from their own ideals.”

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Preface
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)

“It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.”

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"Sources of Intolerance"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)

“Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.”

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An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

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Fuente: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 14: Freedom Versus Authority in Education

“Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.”

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Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 192
1910s