What did Bertrand Russell mean by: More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England Copy
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Addiction, Desire, Power, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Achievement, Concentration, Essential, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Existence, Government, Laws, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Behavior, Consequences, Fear, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
+ Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Author, October 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Hatred, Idealism, Power, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
+ Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Author, December 9, 2022December 25, 2024, Bertrand Russell, Freedom, Government, Security, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Connection, Love, Spirituality, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Bertrand Russell, Goodness, Happiness, Life, 0 Bertrand Russell Philosopher · England
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
