Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
" Is There a God? http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/religion/br/br_god.html" (1952), encomendado pela revista ilustrada, mas não publicado até a sua aparição em "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell", Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68, ed. John G. Slater e Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48
Bertrand Russell: Citações de vida
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Capítulo 2: Infelicidade byroniana - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 27.
A conquista da felicidade
A Filosofia entre a Religião e a Ciência
Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.
The conquest of happiness - Página 160, Bertrand Russell - H. Liveright, 1930 - 249 páginas
“Temer o amor é temer a vida e os que temem a vida já estão três partes mortos.”
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Marriage and morals - página 287, Star books, Bertrand Russell, Edição 3, Editora H. Liveright, 1929, 320 páginas
Capítulo 1: O que torna as pessoas infelizes? - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 15.
Escreve Bertrand Russell em relação a infelicidade cotidiana normal.
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The later Wittgenstein, on the contrary, seems to have grown tired of serious thinking and to have invented a doctrine which would make such an activity unnecessary. I do not for one moment believe that the doctrine which has these lazy consequences is true. I realize, however, that I have an overpoweringly strong bias against it, for, if it is true, philosophy is, at best, a slight help to lexicographers, and at worst, an idle tea-table amusement.
Bertrand Russell; My Philosophical Development http://www.archive.org/details/myphilosophicald001521mbp
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved
The conquest of happiness - Página 114, Bertrand Russell - H. Liveright, 1930 - 249 páginas
Capítulo 1: O que torna as pessoas infelizes? - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 17.
A conquista da felicidade
Capítulo 1: O que torna as pessoas infelizes? - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 18.
Escreve Bertrand Russell sobre o narcisismo.
A conquista da felicidade
Ou seja, pretende tornar suportável a vida tornando-se menos vivo."
Capítulo 1: O que torna as pessoas infelizes? - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 21.
A conquista da felicidade
Capítulo 2: Infelicidade byroniana - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 22.
A conquista da felicidade
Capítulo 2: Infelicidade byroniana - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 25.
A conquista da felicidade