Mr.b The Gentleman Rhymer Bertie's Truth Bombs
[Interviewer]
One last question, suppose this film were to be looked at by our descendants, like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years' time
What would you think is 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 would have beneficent 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 die together
We must learn the kind of charity and kind of tolerance
Which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet
