SubscribeBertrand Russell Love Quotes and Love Sayings
Posted on Oct 07, 2008 under Anti-war activist, Atheist, B, Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, Historian, Logician, Mathematician, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pacifist, Socialist | No Comment1. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
2. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), commonly known as simply Bertrand Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, atheist, social reformer, socialist and pacifist. Although he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
Russell led the British “revolt against idealism” in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his protégé Wittgenstein and his elder Frege. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay “On Denoting” has been considered a “paradigm of philosophy.” Both works have had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics and analytic philosophy.
He was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. Russell was imprisoned for his pacifist activism during World War I, campaigned against Adolf Hitler, for nuclear disarmament, criticised Soviet totalitarianism and the United States of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.”
More Quotes:
1. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
2. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
3. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
4. Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
5. We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
