The Liberal Thinker's Perspective of Life, Love and More
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
1.It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
2.Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
3.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.
4.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.
5.To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
6.Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
7.We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
8.The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
1.It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
2.Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
3.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.
4.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.
5.To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
6.Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
7.We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
8.The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
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