Bertrand Russell Wikiquote. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell May 1. February 2, 1. 97. British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1. 95. 0, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. See also. The Problems of Philosophy 1. Political Ideals 1. Marriage and Morals 1. The Conquest of Happiness 1. TP.jpg' alt='The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' title='The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' />Mortals and Others 1. A History of Western Philosophy 1. Unpopular Essays 1. ToC.jpg' alt='The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' title='The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' />Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a CommonWealth Ecclesiasticall and Civilcommonly referred to as Leviathanis a book written by Thomas Hobbes 1588. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to. The Impact of Science on Society 1. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1. My whole religion is this do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day. 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. I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness. Greek Exercises 1. Russell used to write down his reflections in this book, for fear that his people should find out what he was thinking. I should like to believe my peoples religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' title='The Supreme Philosophy Of Man The Laws Of Life Pdf Reader' />I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parsons comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Greek Exercises 1. I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day. Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith 1. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 The Private Years 1. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Nicholas Griffin. Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I dont know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery. Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith 1. Smith was a Quaker, thus the archaic use of Thee in this and other letters to her. Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy piggledy ways. Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith 1. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 The Private Years 1. Nicholas Griffin. It should be noted that in his talk of the race, he is referring to the human race. Download Deb From Cydia Source here. Smith married Russell in December 1. Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. Both these points would belong to applied mathematics. We start, in pure mathematics, from certain rules of inference, by which we can infer that if one proposition is true, then so is some other proposition. These rules of inference constitute the major part of the principles of formal logic. We then take any hypothesis that seems amusing, and deduce its consequences. If our hypothesis is about anything, and not about some one or more particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus 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. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate. Unlike the utilitarian. I judge pleasure and pain to be of small importance compared to knowledge, the appreciation and contemplation of beauty, and a certain intrinsic excellence of mind which, apart from its practical effects, appears to me to deserve the name of virtue. For many years it seemed to me perfectly self evident that pleasure is the only good and pain the only evil. Now, however, the opposite seems to me self evident. What first turned me away from utilitarianism was the persuasion that I myself ought to pursue philosophy, although I had and have still no doubt that by doing economics and the theory of politics I could add more to human happiness. It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression. Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1. It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater not because the pleasure it gives although very pure is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true. Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1. Again, in regard to actual human existence, I have found myself giving honour to those who feel its tragedy, who think truly about Death, who are oppressed by ignoble things even when they are inevitable yet these qualities appear to me to militate against happiness, not only to the possessors, but to all whom they affect. And, generally, the best life seems to me one which thinks truly and feels greatly about human things, and which, in addition, contemplates the world of beauty and of abstract truths. This last is, perhaps, my most anti utilitarian opinion I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist all that is commonly called Science to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made. Utilitarians have been strangely anxious to prove that the life of the pig is not happier than that of the philosopher a most dubious proposition. Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1. What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation. Letter to Lucy Martin Donnely, July 6, 1. Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. Letter to Lucy Donnely, November 2. Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.