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Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations

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Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihaB8AFOhZo


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"And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." Bertrand Russell in this capture.


In 1959, Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and peace activist was just short of his 87th birthday, when he gave wide-ranging interviews to the BBC and the CBC.


In this capture, Russell giving life lessons — lessons about critical thinking, love and tolerance — to a generation living 1,000 years in the future. Interviewer: John Freeman.


Excerpt from the video "Bertrand Russell - Interview ("Face to Face", 1959)". In full length here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10A5...


Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. 


TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEWER  One last question: Suppose Lord Russell this film were to be looked at by our descendants, like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years time, what would you think it's worth telling that generation about the life you've lived and  the lessons you've learned from it?


BERTRAND RUSSELL  I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one  moral: The intellectual thing, I should want to say to them, is this: When you are studying  any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only "what are the facts, and what is the  truth that the facts bear out?" Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe,  or by what you think could have beneficial social effects, if it were believed. But look  only and solely at: "What are the facts?" That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to  say. The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say: Love is wise, hatred  is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn  to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact, that some people say things that  we don't like. We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to  the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TK9c-caEcw

I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia
I had an hour stroke they detect with
him and he spoke English much better
than you would have expected the
conversation was in English I expected
it to opinion German with I found his
English was quite good I was less
impressed by Lenin and I expect it to be
he was of course a great man he seemed
me a reincarnation of come work with
exactly the same limitations that from
her head absolute orthodoxy his auto
composition could be proved by cooking a
text in Marx and he was quite incapable
of supposing that there could be
anything in Marx that wasn't right and
that struck me as rather limited I
decide one other thing about him because
his Greek readiness stir up hatred I put
certain questions to him to see what his
answer would be one of them was you
profess to be establishing socialism but
as far as the countryside is concerned
you seem to me to be establishing
peasant proprietorship which is a very
different thing from agricultural
socialism and he said oh you mean oh
we're not establishing peasant
proprietorship is it you see there are
poor peasants and rich patients and we
stirred up the poor peasant series two
rich peasants and they zoom hang the
cousin eerie screech I didn't much like
that
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