Home / Quotes / Quote by Bertrand Russell

Quote by Bertrand Russell

“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.”

Author

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, mathematician, and logician born on May 18, 1872, and died on February 2, 1970. He is known for his contributions to logic and mathematics, particularly in the fields of mathematical logic and philosophical analysis. His works spanned a wide range of subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, history, and literary criticism. more

“The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.”

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

Men May Moments Lasts Science Fall Results Education Situation Special Remains Average Analysis Nevertheless Dictionary Falling Down Average Man Decisive Moments

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.”

“A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.”

People Ifs Able Earth Science Heaven Existence Education Weak Storm Scholar Cowardly Degenerates Pacifist

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”

Would Be Science Wealth Ability Education Quality Leader Regard Proof Characteristics Mistaken Theoretical

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'”

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.”

People Said Ends Age Religion Slavery Slave Chosen Gentleman Revelations Prophecy Testament End Times New Testament Genesis Decree Psalms Old And New Let Him Go Till The End

Author:Jefferson Davis

“That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.”

Needs States Church Weapons True Religion

Book:The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience: Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace : Who, in All Tender Affection, Present to the High Court of Parliament, (as the Result of Their Discourse) These, (among Other Passages) of Highest Consideration

Source: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience: Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace : Who, in All Tender Affection, Present to the High Court of Parliament, (as the Result of Their Discourse) These, (among Other Passages) of Highest Consideration

“The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .”

States Spiritual President Church Particles Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State Jurisdiction

Author:Alexander Hamilton

Quote by Bertrand Russell

Author

You May Also Like