What Bertrand Russell thinks about optimism
British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
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1 dated position, c. 1917, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsRevolutionary action may be unnecessary, but revolutionary thought is indispensable, and, as the outcome of thought, a rational and constructive hope.