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Biography - Bertrand Russell:

British philosopher, logician and mathematician.
Born: 1872 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.


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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Qui souhaite devenir un philosophe doit apprendre à ne pas être effrayé par des absurdités.

German
Wer ein Philosoph werden will, darf sich nicht vor Absurditäten fürchten.




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See also...



The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.




Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.











Quotes for: philosopher


Quotes

Quotes for: philosopher


Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.





Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The beard does not make the philosopher.
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The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.





The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.











Quotes for: absurd


Quotes

Quotes for: absurd


Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.





Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.





Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.





The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.





Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible.





The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.











Quotes

Bertrand Russell also said...


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.





I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.





To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.





Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.












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