9 Quotes by Bertrand Russell about littles



  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

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    There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

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  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

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  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

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  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

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  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

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