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«Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Men,
Pride
| Keywords:
feeble, impieties, impiety, insolence, submission
«For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Morality
| Keywords:
custom, decried, decry, degraded, earnest, moralist, moralists, Two thousand, unworthy
«Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
appeal, concerning, due to, inculcate, inculcated, indecent, moralist, moralists, occur, physiological, pornography, sex appeal, tenth, tenths
«Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Sex
| Keywords:
outside marriage
«Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
absolute, actual, conform, conformed, conforms, region, region of
«Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
Austen, every week, excitement, expects, formerly, heroine, housemaid, housemaids, Jane, Jane Austen, lasted
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
austere, possesses, rightly, sculpture, viewed
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Trouble,
Vanity
| Keywords:
feeds, talked, The Troubles, troubles, vanity
«Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.»
«Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Religion
| Keywords:
completed, done with, glad, gradual, loss, period, religious, religious belief, religious beliefs, rendered, subject, surprise, The Long, The Process, throughout, unhappy
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