On Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, he was a champion of reason,
And his wisdom stands for all season,
Whose wisdom and wit did so greatly astound,
And left us a legacy that will always resound.
He challenged the norms, and truth he exposed,
His legacy continues, and will never be closed.
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Categories:
bertrand, age, america, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
I, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd,
albeit three score plus tres años)
constitutes a novel titled
The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
another writer from England.
Not so much to boast
yours truly sunk trenchant figurative teeth
into material authored courtesy
aforementioned former renown British philosopher,
logician, and social critic.
As an academic, he worked
in philosophy, mathematics, and logic.
Just to reiterate
quite
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Categories:
bertrand, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell Ii
Slow and methodical
thru telling material I tiresomely did wade
steeping yours truly signature
writing stock in trade
while sprawled out on bed housed within
one bedroom apartment (B44)
Highland Manor Apartments
(situated in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
owned by Grosse and Quade),
one of the largest residential
property management firms in this area.
Analogous to basking robin luxuriating
within his/her medium of taster's choice,
I experience with
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Categories:
bertrand, absence, august, beauty, books,
Form: Rhyme
Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours truly, a johnny come lately
doth thirstily swill.
Though challenging material
to comprehend without shadow of doubt,
urs truly disciplines himself
to utter words out
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Categories:
bertrand, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
On Reading Bertrand Russell
On Reading Bertrand Russell --
A History of Western Philosophy
copyright date 1945
Trenchant treatise purchased
August 25th, 2020
at Limerick Chapel Book Sale
(in Church gym)
offered old library books
cost 25 cents apiece.
Musty tome
seventy five years out of print
found welcome home
nevertheless mine brown
myopic eyes eagerly roam
affixing knowledge
within fifty plus shades
double fisted size
gray matter with cerebral dome.
Aging long haired pencil necked geek
said
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Categories:
bertrand, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
On First Reading Euclid, Young Bertrand Russell Is Forever Transformed By Mathematics
“Is 'Mathematics...not only [a] Truth,
but [a] supreme beauty—a beauty cold
and austere, like that of sculpture [uncouth
to men for whom this concept is too bold],
without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
without the gorgeous trappings of painting
or music, yet [is
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Categories:
bertrand, art, beauty, heart, math,
Form: Sonnet
Replying To Bertrand Russell
Science is what we believe to know while philosophy is what we would love to know!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
09 May 2017
*With all due respect to Bertrand Russell I disagree with his statement: " Science is what we know and philosophy is what we do not Know."
We only have to
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Categories:
bertrand, philosophy, science, truth,
Form: Monoku