Russell is so eloquent I could listen to him talk about anything for hours

“I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious-for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: 'Oh, but you forget the good God.' Apparently they conceive of the Deity as a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes. This view strikes me as curious.” Bertrand Russell.

The first I heard of Bertrand was I read two of his quotes: "Humans are born ignorant(empty), they are not born stupid...it is education by government that makes humans stupid." When asked how Fascism starts, he said: "First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."

He met his grandfather who was born in the 1700s... and this interview is from 1961 and he died in 1970. Incredible.

This is nuts. What a voice, what a perspective! He sounds like both Yoda and Palpatine.

“No human being that I can respect needs the consolation of things that are untrue!” - Last sentence, absolutely priceless.

When I was a young man , in the 60s, any mention of Bertrand Russel was met with, Oh! that nut case. or words to that effect. What a TAVESTY!!! He was (and is ) a truly GREAT MAN.

He was the greatest philosophical Historian since David hume and JohnLocke. Bertrand Russell, David Hume and John Locke are my favorite philisophers.

His voice reminds me of Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). Both the movie and this interview are wonderful.

He was a very tolerant person, and even campaigned for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. He was very ahead of his time for a Victorian.

I fell in love with Russell*s incisive clear writing when I first read it at age 18. My admiration for a man who won the Nobel Prize, British Order of Merit and spent 4 months in the slammer for opposing WW One has never dimmed. His breadth of knowledge is almost infinite.

Fun fact: My grand father saved Russel out of the airplane in Norway that crashed in 1948 , the then 76 year old was in good shape and he lived for another 22 years sharing his wisdom with the world.

The anecdotes about the Victorian and Edwardian world are wonderful. That a man of his intellect could speak so naively about disarmament is an object lesson in human nature.

What a story-teller! Apart from his brilliance as a philosopher and all the other fields for which he is famous, he has such a way of imitating people's way of speaking and making them come alive for his auditors. Extraordinary.

Such a Great Man! The epitome of intellect and integrity and one of my idols. The first book of him that I read was "Freedom and Organization" followed by "A History of Western Philosophy", both when I was in high school, and his other excellent writings. He was the greatest person who influenced me through his books and shaped my outlook on science, world, history, philosophy, etc. I became fond of exact sciences and pursued my studies because of his writings. Britain should be proud of him.

What a delightful man

I use this narration to softly listen and drift off to sleep ❤️

AMAZING INTERVIEW !!...ABSOLUTELY AMAZING !!! 😃🙂👋👋👋

formal history is one thing , but these personal rememberings are priceless

Lord Russell would be delighted at the extent to which his views have been disseminated globally thanks to the power of social media. An historic recording. Thank you for sharing it with us. It was fascinating!

When reading Principia Mathematica, I am just baffled by BRs profound wisdom and unsurpassed depth of knowledge. A genius by all counts but with a rare humanitarian touch.

My favorite philosopher. I never get tired of reading him.

What a remarkable man, he’s been my hero since I first read his work. His mathematical paradox, which he was successful in circumventing, just an incredible mind! His views on humanity if shared by humanity the world would be a far more wonderful place.

I love the way he talks, even if i didn't care about his ideas.His intonation and honest involvement with every word he utters is remarkable. Here is a man of integrity that i would respect even if his ideas were diametrically opposed to mine.

Simply beautiful

A truly great interview.

A great analytical thinker. Deserves more recognition in history. Despite the limitations of information and technology that we afforded today (google, you tube, instant media) to expand our intellect. For his time what he observed with his intellect of what was available to him then he was quite insightful. The future will always find errors in the past because the future has the advantage of things the last lacked.

Splendid to hear him now as an elder ... hard to imagine him shy ... Also, I am trying to "explain" to people I deal with the many ways the 21st century completely differs from years in the past.

unfortunately we don't have even few people like him in the whole world toady, we miss him so much

My philosophical Hero in true sense. Among the giants who walked the earth. Thank you for the video!

We are all grateful to this great man his clarity of thought and jovialness of spirit.

This is a treasure! Thank you for sharing.

Amazing voice. No one speaks like this today.

This is one of the most incredible pieces of recording that I have ever heard.

The idea that we should give up weapons of mass destruction upset many Christians. He had the strange view that life on earth is worth preserving and for this he was put in prison. He wasn't allowed to teach logic in New York because he thought love is better than hate. I found that "Why I am not a Christian" is more convincing than the Bible and has the merit of brevity.

Quite a lively mimic and performer, especially for someone that age.

One of the greatest minds in history

Wonderful interview. Apart from his great intellect and independent thinking, what an interesting contemporary recollection of Disreli, Lenin Shaw etc. Many thanks for posting!

A brilliant thinker!

We are here! We are here!

A quite fascinating man!

I will be very glad to have this video with subtitles, the content is truly interesting, but quality is problematic for non native speakers like me.

Tennyson put water in his port...so we never mentioned him again.

My parents used to talk about the great man a lot. I was born in the year of this interview. Lived Half a mile from the American airbase at Greenham. As a kid I was taken on the first Aldermaston cnd march. I found this illuminating especially while talking about the UK instilling a compromise and a no nuclear no nato future. How relevant is this today! What a thinker.

wonderful piece...a look back into 19th century history...thank you.

Great man with a free fearless and open mind. His concern to humanity was unique.very good interview.

He was, in my opinion, the best of men. The very first “philosopher” I ever read, back in 11th grade. Once I read “Why I Am Not A Christian” my entire world changed!

We need these men to keep us on the right track with their reasoning.

Bertrand Russell. .lives on ...

i find Bertrand Russell perfectly tolerable. What a great man. Attending to the chimney whilst the interview for the comfort of his guest, even though it made later cough a bit.

What an incredible human.

Very excellent.

So many snippets and snapshots of great and/or famous people, events and ideas. Plenty here to provoke thought, if not conversation, or even argument.

A philosopher king, and an extraordinary conversationalist.

Wow! This is personal history! Thank you.

A Wealth of Wisdom : Language; Literature, Logic and it's Contribution to Civilization. When men use reason we become better stewards rather than follow dogma. Grateful for you always Bertrand Arthur William Russell..

One of Wales! greatest sons. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wow! David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr and Bertrand Russell all were at Cambridge in 90s. Who would’ve thought?

A _most_ remarkable conversation. Such wonderful memories too of his time in college and the notables he met and influenced!"

60 years ago - April 1961 - April 2021

This integrity and intelligence is a delight the open humour also, just of a much better mindset.Today this is very noticeably absent.

What a decent man.

What a genius! What brilliance, clarity, lucidity! No one like him around today. Our environment is perhaps incapable of producing an intellectual Giant like him because unbeknownst to us we live in America within a rigid economic orthodoxy that militates against intellectual freedom unfettered from results based on profit.

@40:13 Speaking truth to power. I can only imagine what he'd have to say about the world now!

Who’s listening to this in 2020? 😁

What a man

Thankyou Lord Russell

What a man ❤️

I love you Lord Russell.

Just 2 from Russell's Liberal Decalogue: #5 "Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to found". #7 "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric". Bertrand Russell was the greatest of Iconoclasts.

Ach, the riches of KZfaq . . . just when I feel I am about to get disgusted by it, I bring up such a video as this, that keeps me in its shackles.

What a bloody genius! AND, like most Great Men (& Ladies too!) incredibly modest and self-effacing. Watch his interview on "Why I am Not a Christian" to see him utterly demolish ALL the same old nonsense trotted out by "Modern" Christian apologists like that, inexplicably popular, philosophical ConMan -- William Lane Craig!

'May I request that gentleman who has, not once but repeatedly, interrupted the flow of my observations to extend me that large measure of courtesy which, were I in his place and he in mine, I should undoubtedly extend to him' - Gladstone and the drunken man Can you name today one politician in the entire world who could make such a remark extemporaneously?

Listening to this great man I can't help but wonder if he was the inspiration for Paul Whitehouse's Fast Show creation the 13th Duke of Wyburne.

Not sure if I fully agree with his opinion on education. He compares it to athletes, but surely they work extremely hard and train every day to achieve their position. I think that comparison only shows that education should be accessible to all. For all to have the opportunity to train themselves to be able to understand subjects of all kinds, not just be given to those who are ''gifted''. Separating them into a privatised form of education would only lead to further inequality in my opinion. Although I do understand his view to some extent. Some people do have an innate ability, and perhaps they do feel some form of boredom amongst people who don't, but surely, in order to gain full insight into life being amongst people who are different and have different abilities is important.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell BORN 1872 died 1970 wow ... 97 years old lived through the Victorian era Edwardian era so many memories he had we shall never be able to his links to royalty etc amazing interview

I agree with the formation of the League of Neutrals- Meeting ASSP

It seems to me that this manner of free thinking and effortless wit has all but vanished from English society. I hear it now and I absorb it thirstily.

I had a lovely step grandfather who was brought up a catholic and occasionally would utter spasms of latin liturgical text. It would sound EXACTLY like this @21:13 . He was a factory worker all his life, so it is reassuring to hear that even eminent Cambridge dons suffered the same condition

Russell has an amazing way of bringing out the wonder which lies just below the surface of our everyday experience, and for such a genius to be able to do so in a way that pretty much anyone can understand is an incredible gift. Here's a nice video on his thoughts on Appearance vs Reality: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rqikYKd_nLqac2w.html

Anyone else wonder how he could have remembered Browning when he (Russell) was only two when Browning came to visit?

A great line when he spoke about GB Shaw - "By means of wit, he concealed the fact that he was silly." Indeed, Shaw was the useful idiot of Stalinist Russia.

We architects tend to think we cover philosophy very well while in turn, philosophers cover us. Who should i thank for, coder, programmer or AI? Living in deft and blind, i tend to think i am all if i could and should

Interesting how the nuclear threat was so consuming in the public conscious at this time.

Amazing interview. Os seus pontos de vista, parecendo por vezes candidos, vão directos à hipocrisia da sociedade em que ele viveu e ao cinismo da mundividência dos que almejam, nos píncaros da sociedade, pela guerra, pela manutenção dos privilégios.

the story of the don who believed sneezing in his presence was a piss take that warranted murder had me shrieking with laughter

Despite his heritage, he seems like that rare thing: a classless human being; he grasps the segragation of society in such a casual way---he knows!

I like This Simplicity

Ah, Russell...pretty much the only philosopher in undergrad that seemed to be trying to say something.

Anybody know what Cardigan Bay looks like through French windows ?

Is there a transcript?

Is nothing better to having a sincere conversations to one another beloved indeed! Is like bringing forth the true meaning of conversations. Is like obviously will be given same measured indeed. It's amazing how conversations can be measured indeed. It's amazing likewise LANGUAGE given and LANGUAGE understood indeed. Food can be eaten! I can be quite! Bring food unto our Father.. so I can be quite beloved. Remember thy FEETS beloved! Is like how can this child be quite? Obviously there's a true reason why? Luv you pop! WASHERS of FEETS of neighbors like thy feet pop! Likewise thy MILEAGE from thy feet is recognized! Why not? Because all of you are worth more than anything nor everything that exists! Is like why know what you know? Remember thy lives Have to be DESIRED 1st. Given the privilege you and I can have sincere conversations beloved from my FATHER GOD. INDEED upon all dry GROUNDS nor the world. REMEMBER LOVE THY NEIGHBORS AS THYSELF. HOW ELSE CAN HAVEN FOR ALL THY INNOCENTS YOUNGS SONS AND DAUGHTERS CAN GOD HEAR LAUGHTERS INDEED IS SOOTHING TO HEAR AND MY KINGS AND PRIESTS. IT'S A TRUE FOOD. TRUTH AND PEACE reunite. Foundation 1st. Love God 2nd. Love thy neighbors as thyself. Pops nothing is wasted but increased. "Is not the FEETS but principalities who sits in high places don't belong sitting". Why fight one another? But to identify wolves dressed in sheeps clothing among MY YESHUA Jesus christ and the child HEIRS. THY TRUE WILL FATHER GOD. ALL THEIR FEETS WILL BE RECOGNIZED AND ALL RECEIVED THE NEW SONGS UPON ALL FEETS RECEIVE. Is not what we possess but is what you can do without! What is the true meaning of APPRECIATION? Who ever can appreciate something small will be given to appreciate something bigger can be APPRECIATED INDEED and BE GIVEN ACCORDINGLY. Covenant not made by ink and paper to some will say? Truth and peace be put back to its rightful place. Remember thy FEETS beloved! WASHERS of FEETS of neighbors.

1:40:18 Apparently Bertrand did not think Christians ever stood firm unto death. I guess he missed the memo detailing the Catholic Inquisition.

Just got fired from my job as a set designer. I left without making a scene.

Anyone in possession of instructions that would eliminate or make tolerable the feedback?

'You English have no equivalent for Gelehrte'. Yes we do, we c-c-call them 'prigs'. What a master of wit and humour!

enslavement to the domesticated mind, obedience to the surviving mind, freedom to the conditioned mind , freedom & existence to the struggling men 😥

We must all admire the intelligence and, for me his insights and arguments against our locked in concrete attitudes to say NATO and relationships between countries. One argument he seems to miss is that the educational system of public schools and the overwhelming influence of Cambridge and Oxford graduates has produced an unfair, rigidly class structured society in England which does not compare favourably with well being and happyness of say some Scandinavian countries. In Germany, students must get their degrees from two universities, not just one as in England. Also degree examinations are the same for every university. Outstanding students will shine whatever the educational system surely. Perhaps Universities should emphasize virtue and humane living and Government on all their courses.

4:37 Did I hear that part right?

Give me 3 minutes of the salient moments.