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罗素经典名言
　　1·一部分儿童具有思考的习惯，而教育的目的在于铲除他们的这种习惯。
　　出处：《我的信仰》，1925
　　2·科学使我们为善或为恶的力量都有所提升。（11月20日名言）
　　出处；《我的信仰》，1925
　　3·广义地说，最渴望权力之人就是最可能获得权力之人。
　　出处：《权力论》，1938
　　4·中国是一切规则的例外。
　　出处：《怀疑论》，1928
　　5·爱因斯坦的‘相对论’使人觉得懂得之事变少了。
　　出处：《现代科学及其将来》
　　6·乞丐并不会妒忌百万富翁，但是他肯定会妒忌收入更高的乞丐
　　出处：《幸福之路》，1930
　　7·青年时期是豁达的时期，应该利用这个时期养成自己豁达的性格。（11月6日名言）
　　8·许多人宁愿死，也不愿思考，事实上他们也确实至死都没有思考。
　　9·我的人生正是：使事业成为喜悦，使喜悦成为事业。
　　10·从每天上学的时间看，中国儿童最有思想。
　　11·即使真相并不令人愉快，也一定要做到诚实，因为掩盖真相往往要费更大力气。
　　12·不要为自己持独特看法而感到害怕，因为我们现在所接受的常识都曾是独特看法。
　　13·不用盲目地崇拜任何权威，因为你总能找到相反的权威。
　　14·凡事不要抱绝对肯定的态度。
　　15·这个世界最大的麻烦，就在傻瓜与狂热分子对自我总是如此确定，而智者的内心却总充满疑惑。
　　16·科学是那些我们已经知道的东西，哲学是那些我们还不知道的东西。哲学是我们可以胡说八道的一种特殊权力。哲学是有道理的猜想。
　　17·爱国就是为一些很无聊的理由去杀人或被杀。
　　出处:1914年，第一次世界大战爆发，罗素积极宣传反战思想，鼓吹“CO”（以良心为由拒绝从军）；几次反战演讲时，都遭到英国爱国主义民众暴力攻击。剑桥大学要求罗素缴交罚款110英镑或自愿解聘。罗素选择了解聘，并以这句话讽刺爱国主义。
　　18·美国的民主，没有生命，也无意义，因为人民无法撤换那些真正统治他们的人。
寓意：讽刺美国真正的统治权是在大老板的大公司里“世袭”著，每一个美国总统都必须为这些呼风唤雨的大公司的利益服务。
19·当一个国家强大得不想去侵略别国，那么，这个国家就叫做中国。

对爱情的渴望,对知识的追求,对人类苦难无可遏止的同情心,这三种简单而又强烈的感情支配了我的一生。”就是出自罗素自传的前言的开头。

希望是坚韧的拐仗，忍耐是旅行袋。携带它们，人可以走完世界，登上永恒之旅。——罗素

青年时期是豁达的时期，应该利用这个时期养成自己豁达的性格。

伟大的事业是根源于坚韧不断地工作，以全副精神去从事，不避艰苦。

爱情只有当它是自由自在时，才会叶茂花繁。认为爱情是某种义务的思想只能置爱情于死地。只消一句话：你应当爱某个人，就足以使你对这个人恨之入骨。

罗素——自由思想十诫

１．凡事不要抱绝对肯定的态度；
２．不要试图隐瞒证据，因为证据最终会被暴露；
３．不要害怕思考，因为思考总能让人有所补益；
４．有人与你意见相左时，即使这些意见来自你的丈夫或孩子，也应该用争论去说服他们，而不是用权威去征服，因为靠权威取得的胜利是虚幻而自欺欺人的；
５．不用盲目地崇拜任何权威，因为你总能找到相反的权威；
６．不要用权力去压制你认为有害的意见，因为如果你采取压制，其实 只说明你自己受到了这些意见的压制；
７．不要为自己持独特看法而感到害怕，因为我们现在所接受的常识都 曾是独特看法；
８．与其被动地同意别人的看法，不如理智地表示反对，因为如果你信自己的智慧，那么你的异议正表明了更多的赞同；
９．即使真相并不令人愉快，也一定要做到诚实，因为掩盖真相往往要费更大力气；
１０．不要嫉妒那些在蠢人的天堂里享受幸福的人，因为只有蠢人才以为那是幸福。

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
English author, mathematician, & philosopher

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
---Bertrand Russell

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won"t go.
--Bertrand Russell
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
---Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
---Bertrand Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
---Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
---Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people"s secret virtues.
---Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
---Bertrand Russell
Passive acceptance of the teacher"s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
--Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
---Bertrand Russell
Science may set limits to knowledge but should not set limits to imagination.
--Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
--Bertrand Russell

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
--Bertrand Russell
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
--Bertrand Russell
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
--Bertrand Russell
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
--Bertrand Russell
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
--Bertrand Russell
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
--Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
--Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
--Bertrand Russell
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
--Bertrand Russell
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
--Bertrand Russell
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
--Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
--Bertrand Russell
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
--Bertrand Russell
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
--Bertrand Russell
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
--Bertrand Russell,
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
--Bertrand Russell,
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
--Bertrand Russell,
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
--Bertrand Russell,
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell,
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
--Bertrand Russell,
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one"s work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell,
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
--Bertrand Russell,
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives" mouths.
--Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
--Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
--Bertrand Russell
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.
-Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate."
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Recrudescence of Puritanism"
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
--Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
--Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
--Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

I love these two quots:
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell 
bertrand russell quotes 罗素名言精粹.
　　a stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
　　all movements go too far.
　　do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
　　everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
　　i think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. i shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
　　i would never die for my beliefs because i might be wrong.
　　if a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. if, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
　　if there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
　　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.
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　　in the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
　　it has been said that man is a rational animal. all my life i have been searching for evidence which could support this.
　　it is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
　　life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
　　many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
　　mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
　　men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
　　no one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
　　our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
　　passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. it involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. it causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
　　patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
　　science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
　　so far as i can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
　　the good life, as i conceive it, is a happy life. i do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - i mean that if you are happy you will be good.
　　the greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
　　the main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
　　the most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
　　the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
　　the place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
　　the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

On Human Nature and Politics
论人性和政治

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is ,one of the main causes of great political events. But man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has desires which are , so to speak, intimate, which can never be fully gratified, and which should keep him restless even in Paradise. The boa constrictor, when he had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most not part are not like this. When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did n