Craig ConstantineJul 22, 2022

Human existence

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

~ Bertrand Russel

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

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WIST Quotations1d ago

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the “administrator’s fallacy,” by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole, of a sort that is thought good if it is pleasant to contemplate as a model of order, a planned organism with parts neatly dove-tailed into each other. But a society does not, or at least should not, exist to satisfy an external survey, but to bring a good life to the individuals who compose it. It is in the individuals, not in the whole, that ultimate value is to be sought. A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it, not something having a separate kind of excellence on its own account.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

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People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political and social thinking is prone to what may be called the "administrator’s fallacy," by which I mean the habit of looking upon a society as a systematic whole,…

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Craig ConstantineOct 31, 2021

Taken for granted

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.

~ Bertrand Russell

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

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Craig ConstantineAug 13, 2021

Intelligent dissent

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

~ Bertrand Russell

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

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Craig ConstantineJan 14, 2012

Fools and fanatics versus the wise

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~ Bertrand Russell

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This seemed to be trite commentary until I realized that one could also read it to be actionable instructions: The key to solving big, real world, problems is figuring out when one is being the fool/fanatic versus the wise.

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

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Steve DallapeMay 19
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. – Bertrand Russell
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3 “ … yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. #Thought is great and swift and #free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.” - #BertrandRussell
fargovMay 18

Bertrand Russell (18 de mayo de 1872 - 2 de febrero de 1970)filósofo, matemático y escritor británico, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1950. Russell fue un destacado activista social pacifista contra la guerra y defendió el antiimperialismo.

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“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety.” — Bertrand Russell, "Fatigue," The Conquest of Happiness
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“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety.” — Bertrand Russell, “Fatigue,” The Conquest of Happiness

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