Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Best is a collection of Russell’s wittiest and most pungent writings. First published in 1...
Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Best is a collection of Russell’s wittiest and most pungent writings. First published in 1958, this delightfully funny and entertaining book is a striking testament to the remarkable life, work and wit of Bertrand Russell.
Neither misery nor folly seems to be any part of the inevitable lot of man. And I am convinced that intelligence, patience, and eloquence can, sooner or later, lead the human race out of its self-imposed tortures provided it does not exterminate itself meanwhile.
On the basis of this belief, I have had always a certain degree of optimism, although, as I have grown older, the optimum has grown more sober and the happy issue more distant. But I remain completely incapable of agreeing with those who accept fatalistically the view that man is born to trouble. The causes of unhappiness in the past and in the present are not difficult to ascertain. These have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, opressions and tortures... (查看原文)
He told me once that if he could find a proof that I was going to die in five minutes he would of course be sorry to lose me, but this sorrow would be quite outweighed by pleasure in the proof. I entirely sympathised with him and was not at all offended. (查看原文)
Spock
0 有用 清暉 2010-03-17 11:16:03
为练习英语。对其东拼西凑的理路我只好不置一词。
0 有用 方舟K][NGofARK 2015-02-11 21:27:20
大智慧极简版
0 有用 serenade 2011-09-20 22:31:00
my poor English!= =
0 有用 Spock 2012-09-27 15:41:45
买时没注意是个quotation性质的,但看完没后悔
0 有用 Marine 2022-01-18 23:41:49
不信神信逻辑，罗素怼人好好玩