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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Giving, Car
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Bertrand Russell
Emotional, Giving, Feelings
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Life, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.80, Routledge

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

Bertrand Russell
Spring, Passion, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

Bertrand Russell
Illustration, People, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Bertrand Russell
Character, Practice, Giving
Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.106, Oxford University Press, USA

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Bertrand Russell
Giving, Interesting, Important
Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.674, Routledge

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell
Wisdom, Science, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Bertrand Russell
Giving, Able, Infinity
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.77, Booklassic

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Bertrand Russell
Book, Law, Giving

Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.

Bertrand Russell
Sex, Two, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.140, Routledge

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Giving, Wish
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.97, Booklassic

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Bertrand Russell
Giving, Trying, Definitions
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.155, Routledge

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

Bertrand Russell
Men, People, Giving

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Bertrand Russell
Years, Giving, Ends
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.35, Routledge

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Earthquakes, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.114, Routledge

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

Bertrand Russell
Giving, Doe, Delight

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

Bertrand Russell
Math, Science, Giving

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

Bertrand Russell
School, Views, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Giving, Important
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.15, Routledge

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

Bertrand Russell
Giving, Wicked, Petrol
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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