#bertnard russell

[kitapokuyormuhtemelen]

Bildiklerimiz çok az. Az olan bu bildiklerimizle çok şey yapabiliyor oluşumuzsa çok güzel. Tabi yaptıklarımızla birçok şeyi bozuyoruz ama olsun, boza yapa bir şekilde ilerleyeceğiz işte, başladığımız noktaya...

[isomerss-blog]

Envy is the basis of democracy

[dolunay66]

Eğer birbirimizin düşüncelerini okuyabilseydik, bence bunun ilk sonucu, bütün dostluklar sona ererdi; ikinci sonucu çok iyi olurdu, çünkü arkadaşsız bir dünya çekilmeyeceğinden, insanlar birbirleri hakkındaki gerçek düşüncelerini saklama gereksinimi duymadan dost olmayı öğrenirdi.

[57banu]

“Tatlı bir yalan söylersen 10 kişi seni alkışlar, acı bir gerçek söylersen 8 kişi sana saldırır. Ama iki kişi sorgulamaya başlar, o iki kişiye selam olsun.”

Aylaklığa Övgü/Bertnard Russell

[kartanesimavi]

Teknoloji gelişse de düşünce hep aynı kalıyor. Hep bir döngü hep dengede... Bertnard Russell amcamız tahminen bu düşüncesini 1900' lerin başında dile getirmiş.

[quotevadis]

"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of skeptics 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."

— Rusell's teapot as described in the article "Is There a God?" commissioned by "Illustrated" magazine in 1952, but never published. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life, he imagined himself in turn a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. Though he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97.