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Bertrand Russell angol matematikus, logikatudós, filozófus és szociológus, Kingston III. grófja, Nobel-díjas közéleti személyiség. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. május 1872 – 2. február 1970   •   Más nevek Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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„A természeti törvények azonban pusztán leírásai annak, ahogyan a dolgok valójában viselkednek, s mivel pusztán a valóságos viselkedés leírásai, nem mondhatjuk azt, hogy kell lennie valakinek, aki erre a viselkedésre utasította õket. Ugyanis ha ezt feltételezzük, akkor azzal a kérdéssel kell szembenéznünk: "Miért éppen ezeket a természeti törvényeket alkotta Isten, miért nem másokat?"”

Ha erre azt feleljük, hogy egyszerûen a saját kedve szerint alkotta õket, minden különösebb ok nélkül, akkor azt találjuk, hogy van valami, ami nem engedelmeskedik törvényeknek, így a természeti törvények láncolata megszakad. Ha azt mondjuk, amit némely ortodoxabb teológus mond, hogy Istennek minden törvény esetében megvan az oka arra, hogy éppen azt a törvényt hozza, és nem mást -- az ok természetesen az, hogy a lehetõ legjobb világot teremtse (noha ezt a világ láttán nem gondolnánk) -- ha tehát volt ok az Isten által adott törvényekre, akkor Istennek magának is bizonyos törvényeknek kellett alávetnie magát, s ily módon nem jutottunk előbbre azzal, hogy bevezettük Istent, mint közvetítőt.
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Bertrand Russell idézetek

„Úgy érzem, hogy senki sem hihet az örökké tartó bûnhõdésben, aki valóban mélyen humánus érzületû.”

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„Saját lábunkra akarunk állni, és torzítatlanul szemlélni a világot -- a jó dolgokat, a rossz dolgokat, a világ szépségét és csúfságát; olyannak akarjuk látni a világot, amilyen, és nem akarunk félni tõle. Értelemmel meghódítani a világot, nem szolgamódra alávetve magunkat borzalmainak. Az egész istenfogalom az ókori keleti despotizmusokból származik. Olyan fogalom ez, amely nagyon méltatlan a szabad emberekhez. Amikor a templomban azt halljuk, hogy az emberek megalázkodnak és nyomorult bűnösöknek nevezik magukat, ez megvetésre méltó, hitvány dolognak tûnik, amely méltatlan önmagukra valamit is adó emberi lényekhez. Fel kell állnunk, és őszintén, nyíltan kell a világ arcába néznünk. A lehetõ legjobbá kell tennünk világunkat, és ha nem lesz olyan jó, mint szeretnénk, végsõ soron akkor is jobb lesz, mint amilyenné mások tették az elmúlt történelmi korszakokban. A jó világhoz tudásra, jóindulatra és bátorságra van szükség; nincs szükség arra, hogy bûnbánóan epekedjünk a múlt után, sem arra, hogy a szabad értelmet bilincsbe verjük tudatlan emberek réges-régen kiejtett szavaival. Félelem nélküli kiállásra és szabad értelemre van szükség. Reménykednünk kell a jövõben, nem pedig örökösen visszatekintgetnünk a múltba, amely már halott, és amelyet -- ebben bízunk -- messze túlhalad majd a jövő, melyet értelmünkkel teremtünk.”

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Bertrand Russell: Idézetek angolul

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

"A Liberal Decalogue" http://www.panarchy.org/russell/decalogue.1951.html, from "The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism", New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951); later printed in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1969), vol. 3: 1944-1967, pp. 71-2
1950s
Kontextus: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Often paraphrased as "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Compare: "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." B. Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951). Compare also: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919).
See also: Dunning-Kruger effect, Historical Antecedents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect#Historical_antecedents.
1930s, Mortals and Others (1931-35)

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

Változat: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

“We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.”

1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Kontextus: We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide.

“Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.”

Fact and Fiction (1961), Part IV, Ch. 10: "Can War Be Abolished?", p. 276
1960s

“Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.”

Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
Kontextus: One of the most horrible things about commercialism is the way in which it poisons the relations of men and women. The evils of prostitution are generally recognized, but, great as they are, the effect of economic conditions on marriage seems to me even worse. There is not infrequently, in marriage, a suggestion of purchase, of acquiring a woman on condition of keeping her in a certain standard of material comfort. Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from. The whole basis of these evils is economic. Economic causes make marriage a matter of bargain and contract, in which affection is quite secondary, and its absence constitutes no recognized reason for liberation. Marriage should be a free, spontaneous meeting of mutual instinct, filled with happiness not unmixed with a feeling akin to awe: it should involve that degree of respect of each for the other that makes even the most trifling interference with liberty an utter impossibility, and a common life enforced by one against the will of the other an unthinkable thing of deep horror.

“I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.”

Forrás: Dear Bertrand Russell: A Selection of His Correspondence with the General Public 1950-68

“All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.”

Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties (1956)
1950s

“We need a science to save us from science.”

NY Times Magazine, as reported in High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City, Vol. 34 (1952), p. 46
1950s

“The facts of science, as they appeared to him [Heraclitus], fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.”

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

“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.”

Bertrand Russell könyv Why I Am Not a Christian

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

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Bertrand Russell könyv The Conquest of Happiness

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

“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”

Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from What is an Agnostic? (1953).-->
1950s
Kontextus: 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.

“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.”

1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
Kontextus: 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.

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

As quoted in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given.
Disputed
Változat: 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.

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