Bertrand-Russell on Scholionhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/bertrand-russell/Recent content in Bertrand-Russell on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankindhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/russell-three-passions-autobiography/Thu, 07 May 2026 11:35:49 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/russell-three-passions-autobiography/Abertura do prólogo do primeiro volume de The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967), escrito em 25 jul 1956. Provavelmente o trecho mais citado da obra dele.As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubleshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/abandon-our-own-reason-rely-upon-authority/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/abandon-our-own-reason-rely-upon-authority/De Unpopular Essays (1950), coletânea polêmica de Russell. O argumento de autoridade aparece como raiz comum de erros morais e políticos.Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentrichttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/do-not-fear-to-be-eccentric-in-opinion/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/do-not-fear-to-be-eccentric-in-opinion/De A Liberal Decalogue (1951), os dez mandamentos liberais que Russell publicou no New York Times Magazine no espírito do seu anti-dogmatismo.Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdomhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fear-source-of-superstition-cruelty/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fear-source-of-superstition-cruelty/Da palestra Why I Am Not a Christian (1927). Russell sustenta que medo é a base psicológica comum à religião, à crueldade e à submissão social.I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wronghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/would-never-die-for-my-beliefs/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/would-never-die-for-my-beliefs/Atribuída a Russell em entrevistas tardias e compilações biográficas. Wikiquote a registra entre as verificadas, embora a fonte primária não esteja localizada com precisão.If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will refuse to believe it unless evidence is overwhelminghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fact-against-instincts-overwhelming-evidence/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fact-against-instincts-overwhelming-evidence/De Proposed Roads to Freedom (1918). Observação sobre a resistência epistêmica humana: dados que contradizem expectativas afetivas só passam quando o peso da evidência é esmagador.In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are nonehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/science-philosophy-agreement/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/science-philosophy-agreement/De Logical Atomism (1924). Russell distingue ciência e filosofia pelo regime de acordo: a primeira avança em consenso, a segunda mantém o desacordo como matéria de trabalho.It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and noblyhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/preoccupation-with-possessions/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/preoccupation-with-possessions/De Principles of Social Reconstruction (1917). A posse acumulativa como obstáculo principal à vida boa: ocupa atenção, gera ansiedade, bloqueia o impulso criativo.Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is truehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/mathematics-never-know-what-talking-about/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/mathematics-never-know-what-talking-about/Do ensaio Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics (1901). Sobre a tese formalista: a verdade matemática é da estrutura, não dos referentes.Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautyhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/mathematics-supreme-beauty/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/mathematics-supreme-beauty/Do ensaio The Study of Mathematics (1907). Russell defende a matemática como objeto de contemplação estética, não apenas instrumento.Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than deathhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/men-fear-thought-as-they-fear-nothing-else/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/men-fear-thought-as-they-fear-nothing-else/De Principles of Social Reconstruction (1917). Russell sustenta que pensar é a atividade mais ameaçadora a qualquer ordem estabelecida.Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do sohttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/most-people-would-sooner-die-than-think/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/most-people-would-sooner-die-than-think/Frase atribuída a Russell em compilações e relatos sobre seu humor seco. A fonte primária em obra publicada não está identificada; circula sobretudo como dito em conversa.My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human racehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/religion-disease-born-of-fear/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/religion-disease-born-of-fear/Do ensaio Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930). Russell remete explicitamente a Lucrécio: religião como patologia social transmitida por gerações.No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the otherhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-nation-virtuous-as-each-believes/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/no-nation-virtuous-as-each-believes/De Justice in War-Time (1916), coletânea de ensaios pacifistas de Russell. Observação sobre a moralidade nacional comparada na Primeira Guerra.Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape fromhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marriage-prostitution-harder-to-escape/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/marriage-prostitution-harder-to-escape/De Proposed Roads to Freedom (1918). Russell critica o casamento da sua época como contrato econômico disfarçado de sacramento.Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so littlehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/physics-mathematical-because-we-know-so-little/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/physics-mathematical-because-we-know-so-little/De An Outline of Philosophy (1927). Russell inverte o senso comum: o aparato matemático da física é sinal de pobreza descritiva, não de domínio do mundo.Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fearhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/religion-based-upon-fear/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/religion-based-upon-fear/Da palestra Why I Am Not a Christian (1927). A formulação reduzida da tese psicológica de Russell sobre religião como fenômeno coletivo do medo.The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/stupid-cocksure-intelligent-full-of-doubt/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/stupid-cocksure-intelligent-full-of-doubt/Frase de The Triumph of Stupidity (1933), reação direta de Russell à ascensão do nazismo. A paráfrase sobre fools e fanatics não corresponde ao original.The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledgehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/good-life-love-knowledge/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/good-life-love-knowledge/De What I Believe (1925). A formulação ética central de Russell: amor como motivação, conhecimento como orientação.The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/philosophy-simple-paradoxical/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/philosophy-simple-paradoxical/De The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918), série de palestras dadas em Londres. Russell descreve o método analítico que viria a marcar a filosofia inglesa do século XX.Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted timehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/time-you-enjoy-wasting-is-not-wasted-time/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/time-you-enjoy-wasting-is-not-wasted-time/Frase de Phrynette Married (1912) de Marthe Troly-Curtin, frequentemente atribuída a Russell por má leitura de uma entrada no Peter’s Quotations (1977).To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts deadhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fear-love-fear-life/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/fear-love-fear-life/De Marriage and Morals (1929). Russell argumenta contra o moralismo sexual vitoriano: tabus em torno do amor amputam a capacidade de viver.What passes for human nature is at most one-tenth nature, nine-tenths nurturehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/human-nature-nine-tenths-nurture/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/human-nature-nine-tenths-nurture/De Sceptical Essays (1928). Russell ataca o argumento essencialista sobre natureza humana e defende o peso da educação e das instituições.When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupidhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/philosophize-artificially-stupid/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:49:27 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/philosophize-artificially-stupid/De Theory of Knowledge (manuscrito de 1913, publicado postumamente em 1984). Crítica ao gesto filosófico de fingir não saber o que se sabe para construir sistemas a partir do zero.The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physicshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/power-fundamental-concept-social-science/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:22:56 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/power-fundamental-concept-social-science/Frase de abertura de Power: A New Social Analysis (1938). A paráfrase brasileira que troca energia por átomo não corresponde ao original.