**The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**

_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827

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“Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.” – Bertrand Russell
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Last week, we were over in the eastern side of the country and so I decided to drop in to #Cambridge. It’s not a big city and most places can be reached on foot. It’s also flat as a pancake and so easily traversed by bicycle although I didn’t have mine with on this occasion. There many famous colleges there, which form the university and arguably the most famous is #TrinityCollegeCambridge, which has had had many famous mathematicians such as #IsaacNewton, #GHHardy, and #BertrandRussell. (1/2)

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Bertrand Russell: “…nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.”

https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/bertrand-russells-artful-letter-refusing-to-debate-british-fascist-leader-oswald-mosley-1962.html?#google_vignette

"the liberal attitude does not say that you should oppose authority. It says only that you should be free to oppose authority, which is quite a different thing." #philosophy #bertrandrussell #politics #sociology #democracy #liberalism
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/bertrand-russells-10-commandments-for-living-in-a-healthy-democracy.html

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
-- Bertrand Russell

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"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.

"In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window."

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Bertrand Russell on Israel

Bertrand Russell's last message (before his death in 1970) on Israel, the displaced people of Palestine and the subsequent occupation of what remains of their lands.

https://youtu.be/UdkBgE8tFRI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Final_years,_death_and_legacy