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Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Bertrand Russell
Sound, Boots, Argument
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.60, Routledge

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

Bertrand Russell
Powerful, War, Eugenics
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.

Bertrand Russell
Plato, Two, Preparation
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.150, Routledge

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Three, Statistics

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Done, Belief

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

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.

Bertrand Russell
Sex, Law, Feelings
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Bertrand Russell
Science, Men, Two
Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell
Football, War, Men
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.451, Routledge

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Struggle, Animal, Effort
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Bertrand Russell
Long, Sorrow, Facts
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.333, Routledge

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell
Civilization, Return, Lovers
Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.33, Open Court Publishing

It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. [...] The type of aggressiveness that is the outcome of timidity is not, I think, that which inspires great leaders; the great leaders, I should say, have an exceptional self-confidence which is not only on the surface, but penetrates deep into the subconscious.

Bertrand Russell
Self Confidence, Thinking, Roots
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.32, Routledge

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

Bertrand Russell
Technique, Essentials, Tradition
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.125, Routledge

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Bertrand Russell
Views, Other Worlds, Earth
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914”, Allen Lane

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

Bertrand Russell
Loyalty, Organization, Preparation
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.173, Psychology Press

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Bertrand Russell
Unicorn, Logic, Zoology
Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.169, Spokesman Books

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Bertrand Russell
People, Envy, May
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Bertrand Russell
Ignored, Quiet, Sensible

In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.

Bertrand Russell
War, Mean, Government
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

Bertrand Russell
Painful, Circumstances, Knows
Bertrand Russell (1947). “What is the Soul?”, p.2, Hayes Barton Press

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

Bertrand Russell
Order, Self, Desire

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

Bertrand Russell
Government, Population, Should
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.283, Routledge

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Bertrand Russell
Quality, Needs, Punctuality
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Bertrand Russell
Shoes, Numbers, Choices

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