Quote of Bertrand Russell - The degree of one's emotions varies...
Biography - Bertrand Russell:
British philosopher, logician and mathematician.
Born: 1872 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1872 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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Quotes for: fact
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Quotes for: emotion
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
We call 'happiness' a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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