How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm
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How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
What is less recognized is that we all suffer, to a greater or less degree, from nervous disorders having an emotional origin. A man is called sane when he is as sane as the average of his contemporaries; but in the average man many of the mechanisms which determine his opinions and actions are quite fantastic, so much so that in a world of real sanity they would be called insane.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 4 “Emotion and Discipline” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/864…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #perspective #madness #anxiety #average #compensation #coping #emotions #insanity #nerves #nervousdisorder #normal #sanity #neurosis
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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A life of uncertainty is nervously exhausting at all times, but especially in youth.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 2 “The Negative Theory of Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/863…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #uncertainty #childraising #childrearing #children #expectations #routine #security #structure
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“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s #work is terribly important, and that to take a #holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.” - #BertrandRussell
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Of course, we can we abolish war before it destroys us!
It’s a matter of principles, courage, vision and pulling together - while the militarist world is falling apart.
“Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”
The Bertrand Russell—Albert Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955https://thetransnational.substack.com/p/of-course-we-can-we-abolish-war-before
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El hecho de que una opinión haya sido compartida por millones de personas no es prueba de que no sea completamente absurda.
Bertrand Russell, filósofo, matemático y escritor del siglo XX
#frase #pensamientocrítico #filosofía #lógica #bertrandrussell
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/bertrand-russell-happiness/
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/bertrand-russell-happiness/
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#BertrandRussell
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Rebellion in itself is no better than acquiescence in itself, since it is equally determined by relation to what is outside ourselves rather than by a purely personal judgement of value. Whether rebellion is to be praised or deprecated depends upon that against which a person rebels, but there should be the possibility of rebellion on occasion, and not only a blind acquiescence produced by a rigid education in conformity.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #acquiescence #conformity #externality #judgment #perspective #rebel #rebellion
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Hostility to the status quo may be derived from either of two sources: it may spring from sympathy with the unfortunate or from hatred of the fortunate. If it springs from the latter, it involves just as much limitation of sympathy as is involved in conservatism. Many revolutionaries in their day-dreams are not so much concerned with the happiness that is to come to the common people as with the vengeance that they will be able to wreak upon the insolent holders of power from whom they are suffering in the present.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/860…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #change #hatred #power #progress #revolution #revolutionary #statusquo #sympathy #vengeance
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).
Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus…
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.
The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.
This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...
A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment, Minima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.
Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.
#Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The sceptic holds that the truth is undiscoverable, while the dogmatist holds that it is already discovered. The man of science holds that the truth is discoverable though not discovered, at any rate in the matters which he is investigating. But even to say that the truth is discoverable is to say rather more than the genuine man of science believes, since he does not conceive his discoveries as final and absolute, but as approximations subject to future correction. Absence of finality is of the essence of the scientific spirit.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #conclusion #correction #discoverability #discovering #dogma #dogmatist #finality #investigation #knowledge #refinement #science #scientificmethod #skeptic #skepticism #truth #uncertainty
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How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/04/bertrand-russell-oswald-mosley/
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How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/04/bertrand-russell-oswald-mosley/
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Children, like grown-ups, enjoy the sense of achievement derived from mastering a difficulty, but this requires a consistency of effort of which few are capable without some outside encouragement. The capacity for consistent self-direction is one of the most valuable that a human being can possess. It is practically unknown in young children, and is never developed either by a very rigid discipline or by complete freedom.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 2 “The Negative Theory of Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/858…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #achievement #application #childrearing #childraising #children #control #discipline #effort #encouragement #freedom
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Recent discussion with @the_roamer about authorial ‘chutzpah’ reminded me of the title page of Bertrand Russell’s ‘An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth’ (attached, transcription in alt text), published in 1940 shortly after his appointment as professor at the City College of New York had been block by a court on ‘moral’ grounds.
It lists his previous awards and positions and ends with stating the outcome of the court case.
I think he intended both to make an ironic contrast and to adopt his ouster as a badge of pride.
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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Ignorance
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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https://www.europesays.com/es/739698/ ¿Por qué hay algo en lugar de nada? | Ideas #Astrofísica #BertrandRussell #Ciencia #CienciaYTecnología #CienciaYtecnología #ES #España #filosofia #fisica #GottfriedWilhelmLeibniz #MartinHeidegger #religión #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Spain #Technology #Tecnología #teología
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned. One would be surprised to find a saint getting drunk, but one would not be surprised to find him late for an engagement. And yet in the ordinary business of life punctuality is absolutely necessary.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 2 “The Negative Theory of Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/856…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #cooperation #ontime #promptness #punctuality #society #virtue
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty. Of this process, patriotism is the most perfect instance.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual vs. the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/855…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #virtue #coercion #conscience #influence #loyalty #patriotism #wrongdoing
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Belief #Error
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Absence of finality is of the essence of the scientific spirit.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/852…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #certainty #discovery #finality #science #scientificmethod #testing #uncertainty #validation
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"A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of childhood, the brash insecurity of youth, the turmoil of middle age, in order to begin the continuous creative act of holding on while letting go."
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/31/growing-older/ #JEHarrison #UrsulaKLeGuin #BertrandRussell #HenryMiller #SimoneDeBeauvoir #JoanDidion #NickCave -
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/31/growing-older/
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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/31/growing-older/
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/851…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #conformity #intelligence #orthodoxy #truebeliever #truth
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Certainty #Skepticism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages. This would afford a solution to the sexual urge neither restless nor surreptitious, neither mercenary nor casual, and of such a nature that it need not take up time which ought to be given to work.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 9 “Sex in Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/850…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #academics #coeducation #cohabitation #college #highereducation #marriage #sex #studies #university
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others. This must be reckoned as a serious defect in the ethics taught in Christian educational establishments.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 8 “Religion in Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/849…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #Christianity #education #intelligence #religion
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How To Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
“If you can fall in love again and again,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated the measure of a life well lived on the precipice of turning eighty, “if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.” Seven years earlier, the great British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) considered the same abiding question at the same […] -
“It’s terrifying beyond all description the kinds of #mental #torment that there can be.” - Ludwig #Wittgenstein, letter to #BertrandRussell, January 1914.
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How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/13/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/
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How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/13/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/
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Russell on Metaphysics: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell (Russell on...) 1st Edition by Bertrand Russell (PDF)
Author: Bertrand Russell
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/russell-on-metaphysics-selections-from-the-writings-of-bertrand-russell-russell-on-1st-edition-b00tk6yez2/
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Portraits from Memory (Routledge Classics) 1st Edition by Bertrand Russell (PDF)
Author: Bertrand Russell
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/portraits-from-memory-routledge-classics-1st-edition-0367540843/
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"La imaginación de la gente moderna está profundamente influida por el tipo de organización social sugerido por la industria del siglo XIX, que es esencialmente antidemocrática. De una parte están los capitanes de industria y de la otra la masa de los trabajadores."
#libros #filosofia #historia #bertrandrussell
https://www.maikciveira.com/2022/03/bertrand-russell-filosofia-de-la.html?m=1
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 2 “The Negative Theory of Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/847…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abuse #bullying #history #humancondition #humannature #humanity #violence
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‘Bertrand Russell & Trinity: A college controversy of the last war’ is a pamphlet written by G.H. Hardy in 1942, giving an account of the dismissal of Russell from his Trinity College lectureship in 1916 following his criminal conviction for anti-war political activity. (Hardy was at the time a fellow of Trinity and opposed Russell's ouster.)
Since there was no downloadable ebook, I made a re-typeset version, which I have just updated: https://archive.org/details/hardy_russellandtrinity
Creating this version was an exercise for me to learn how to (start to) adapt my LaTeX styles to the new interfaces created by the ongoing LaTeX tagging project [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/]. (A #TaggedPDF contains supplementary information to assist screen reading software, data extraction, etc.)
The updates are mostly behind-the-scenes source code changes, particularly to use the new template interfaces for sectioning. I have made the source available in case it is useful as an example to others: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/hardy_russellandtrinity
#GHHardy #BertrandRussell #WorldWarI #pacficism #literature #TeXLaTeX #Accessibility
