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Osho on Bertrand Russell

58 discourses in which Osho speaks about Bertrand Russell, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. Geeta Darshan 2 Vol. 1 2 #3 · 17 mentions
    “It is said that Bertrand Russell was dying.”
  2. From Personality to Individuality #8: Rajneeshism: womb for transformation · 15 mentions · 6 January 1985
    “Whatever Bertrand Russell has written in a long life of almost one century, you can read within six months.”
  3. From Misery to Enlightenment #29: Rebel or robot? · 10 mentions · 26 February 1985
    “It reminds me of Bertrand Russell's paradox which I talked about a few days before.”
  4. The Invitation #8: Only unripe mangoes are safe · 9 mentions · 25 August 1987
    “But don't make it a mind problem; otherwise, it will become like the famous puzzle of Bertrand Russell.”
  5. Books I Have Loved #12 · 8 mentions
    “Ninth: I am reminded again and again, I don't know why, that I have to include Bertrand Russell.”
  6. Light on the Path #11: A true master can put you on fire · 7 mentions · 10 January 1986
    “He had fortunately, Bertrand Russell as one of his teachers, G.E.”
  7. The Perennial Path: The Art of Living #5: Process of progress · 7 mentions · 13 November 1970
    “There is an interesting joke about Bertrand Russell.”
  8. Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment #5: The truth is what works · 7 mentions · 21 January 1989
    “He was a student of Bertrand Russell in the university, and he found ....”
  9. From Darkness to Light #12: A single humanity rejoicing · 6 mentions · 12 March 1985
    “"Bertrand Russell has written the history of Western philosophy; Radhakrishnan has written the history of Indian philosophy; Suzuki has written the history of Eastern -- so I simply believed these fellows."”
  10. From Misery to Enlightenment #12: God: an idea whose time has come -- and gone · 6 mentions · 9 February 1985
    “But Bertrand Russell -- a young man at that time, and not very famous, just a little bit known as a philosopher in philosophical circles -- was also interested in mathematics.”
  11. The New Dawn #6: What has god been doing for eternity? · 6 mentions · 21 June 1987
    “And when he was coming to the conclusion of his book, Bertrand Russell demolished the whole book of forty years just by a small puzzle.”
  12. The Osho Upanishad #16: The truth is always individual · 6 mentions · 3 September 1986
    “At that time another mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, was also working on a great work on mathematics, PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, to include everything.”
  13. Jharat Dashahun Dis Moti #16 · 6 mentions · 5 February 1980
    “To impress people he had crammed some quotes from Bertrand Russell.”
  14. Jyon Ki Tyon #10 · 6 mentions
    “A joke circulates about Bertrand Russell.”
  15. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #21: Enlightenment -- The Only Way Home · 5 mentions · 19 November 1984
    “In Western history books you will call Bertrand Russell a very enlightened man.”
  16. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood #25 · 5 mentions
    “I was quoting Bertrand Russell -- this quotation will help like a nail.”
  17. I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here #2: Ringing bells in your heart · 5 mentions · 14 February 1989
    “So he must have crammed one statement in English of Bertrand Russell, just to make an impression.”
  18. Satyam Shivam Sundram #22: Unknown territories, unexplored skies · 5 mentions · 17 November 1987
    “One of the great agnostic thinkers of our times, Bertrand Russell, has written a book, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN, and he insists on that point very much.”
  19. Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2 #11: The Stage of the Sage · 5 mentions · 7 March 1977
    “If Bertrand Russell succeeds he is as happy as anybody else.”
  20. The Sword and the Lotus #21: Something deeper than the mind · 5 mentions · 10 February 1986
    “And this is simply absurd, so absurd that one of the most significant philosophers of Europe, Bertrand Russell, had to write a book called, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN.”
  21. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9 #7: Highest knowledge: all at once · 5 mentions · 27 April 1976
    “Bertrand Russell has written a book, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN, in which he gives many arguments why he is not a Christian.”
  22. Geeta Darshan Vol. 3 #1 · 5 mentions
    “He said, “Bertrand Russell says there is no soul—then what will happen to me?””
  23. Beyond Psychology #39: Your mind is not yours · 4 mentions · 1 May 1986
    “Bertrand Russell, one of the geniuses of our times, tried hard to get rid of the Christian mind, not because it was Christian, but simply because it was given to him by others.”
  24. Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master #16: The courage to say "i don't know" · 4 mentions · 12 July 1987
    “Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest mathematicians of our age, and perhaps of all ages, has written a book, PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA.”
  25. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #11: Yes, I Teach You Selfishness · 4 mentions · 9 November 1984
    “If Bertrand Russell can give so much in one hundred years, in three hundred years....”
  26. Om Mani Padme Hum #13: Reality is indivisible · 4 mentions · 27 December 1987
    “And the West is in misery because of Galileo, Copernicus, Columbus, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell.”
  27. The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 1 #5: Be therefore mindful · 4 mentions · 25 August 1976
    “Confucius, Patanjali, or modern agnostics -- Bertrand Russell -- all humanists of the world, they all emphasize: 'Believe only in your own reason.'”
  28. The Invitation #14: Silence is the right soil · 4 mentions · 28 August 1987
    “Bertrand Russell has counted all the sins that he has committed, and all the sins that he has thought to commit but he has not committed, and all the sins that he has committed in his dreams.”
  29. The Rebellious Spirit #22: Work can produce, silence can create · 4 mentions · 21 February 1987
    “Bertrand Russell started the question when he wrote the book, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN.”
  30. Theologia Mystica #1 · 4 mentions · 11 August 1980
    “You must have heard the word "agnostic"; Bertrand Russell used the word for himself.”
  31. From Death to Deathlessness #6: Wait and you shall find · 3 mentions · 7 August 1985
    “Nobody goes to touch the feet of Albert Einstein, or Bertrand Russell, or Martin Heidegger, or Ludwig Wittgenstein -- the people who have contributed to man's knowledge immensely, who have expanded man's vision almost to infinity.”
  32. From Ignorance to Innocence #9: I teach a religionless religion · 3 mentions · 7 December 1984
    “A man like Bertrand Russell became very puzzled, for the simple reason that there are things which anybody who has a little intelligence cannot trust -- but to doubt makes you a sinner; you start feeling guilty.”
  33. From Ignorance to Innocence #24: Imitation is your cremation · 3 mentions · 23 December 1984
    “It is so difficult that even a very intelligent man like Bertrand Russell confessed, "My reason says that Gautam Buddha is certainly the greatest figure in the whole of human history, but although I am not part of any Christian congregation, although I have co…”
  34. From Personality to Individuality #15: Truth said, truth dead · 3 mentions · 13 January 1985
    “Bertrand Russell is right when he says, "If all the crimes that I have committed, and all the crimes that I have dreamed about in my whole life are both to be punished, then the cruelest court cannot send me behind bars for more than four years.”
  35. One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green #3: 1,758,640,175 devils · 3 mentions · 15 January 1989
    “It was on this point that one of the most significant thinkers of this century, Bertrand Russell, dropped out of Christianity -- on this point particularly.”
  36. Sermons in Stones #26: The Human Rights Declaration: Hypocrisy of a barbarous society · 3 mentions · 25 December 1986
    “A Sigmund Freud is a Sigmund Freud; a Bertrand Russell is a Bertrand Russell; a D.H.”
  37. Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2 #12: Stand in Your Son's Shoes · 3 mentions · 8 March 1977
    “When I was looking at this letter and the reader's comment I remembered when Bertrand Russell was once travelling in America.”
  38. The Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart #3: This knowing is a transformation · 3 mentions · 10 September 1988
    “Bertrand Russell was writing the history of the world.”
  39. The Great Path #10: The Eternal Spring · 3 mentions · 20 September 1974
    “Bertrand Russell wrote: "I would not choose liberation, for I have heard that people in the realm have just been sitting on the magic, wish-fulfilling rock for eons."”
  40. The Great Zen Master Ta Hui #13: Nothingness · 3 mentions · 21 July 1987
    “Bertrand Russell remembers...”
  41. The Invitation #27: Still time to change the trains · 3 mentions · 4 September 1987
    “They refer to people like Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jaspers as very enlightened geniuses.”
  42. The Last Testament, Vol 1 #2: I Change With Reality · 3 mentions · 19 July 1985
    “Will you call Bertrand Russell a dropout?”
  43. The Last Testament, Vol 1 #13: America Is A Hypocrite · 3 mentions · 30 July 1985
    “You cannot expect him to understand Van Gogh or the theory of relativity or Bertrand Russell.”
  44. The Last Testament, Vol 5 #21 · 3 mentions · 14 January 1986
    “Since Aristotle to Bertrand Russell you will find great Greek philosophers, great German thinkers, great British philosophers; but you will not find a single French name.”
  45. The New Dawn #22: Compassion - love come of age · 3 mentions · 29 June 1987
    “One of the great philosophers of our age, Bertrand Russell, has emphatically declared, "If there is hell and heaven, I want to go to hell."”
  46. The New Dawn #29: A real encounter with existence · 3 mentions · 2 July 1987
    “After I had spoken it was the turn of a student from the Sanskrit university, and because of that inferiority complex he must have crammed a quotation from Bertrand Russell.”
  47. The Osho Upanishad #38: The conspiracy against the individual · 3 mentions · 26 September 1986
    “I am reminded of one of the great philosophers of this age, Bertrand Russell.”
  48. The Path of the Mystic #34: The word cannot be crucified · 3 mentions · 21 May 1986
    “In India it is very rare that a book is banned, particularly a book written by Bertrand Russell.”
  49. The Rebel #31: Burning torches moving around the world · 3 mentions · 16 June 1987
    “A Bertrand Russell is a Bertrand Russell, and if he has a little more comfortable life, he needs it; his contribution is so great that he should be provided with all the comforts possible.”
  50. The Revolution #9: The Sword of Love-and-Death · 3 mentions · 19 February 1978
    “I have heard: Ludwig Wittgenstein, a great philosopher, was staying at another great philosopher's house -- Bertrand Russell.”
  51. Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi #12: Only Knowing Remains · 3 mentions · 17 January 1974
    “He was not a man of knowledge, he was not like Bertrand Russell.”
  52. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 #24: Doubt or faith, life or death; the bases of different paths · 3 mentions · 17 December 1972
    “I was reading Bertrand Russell.”
  53. Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #23: Of laughter and dance · 3 mentions · 19 April 1987
    “This was one of the reasons Bertrand Russell dropped out of Christianity and wrote a book, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN.”
  54. Es Dhammo Sanantano #61 · 3 mentions · 21 March 1977
    “Whether it is Albert Einstein, or Bertrand Russell, or Jean-Paul Sartre, or Karl Jaspers—the greatest thinkers of the West, who feel unease in bowing before Christ—their heads bow before Buddha.”
  55. Es Dhammo Sanantano #79 · 3 mentions · 8 April 1977
    “So the Sanskrit college’s participant spoke three or four words in Hindi—and then quoted Bertrand Russell in English.”
  56. Geeta Darshan Vol. 13 #6 · 3 mentions
    “Bertrand Russell has written—Bertrand Russell is among the most thoughtful of thinkers, one who placed complete trust in intellect and reason.”
  57. Naye Samaj Ki Khoj #15 · 3 mentions
    “For example, Bertrand Russell writes in his autobiography: when I was young in England, even to see a woman’s toe was difficult; the skirt was so long it touched the ground.”
  58. Shiv Sutra #10 · 3 mentions · 20 September 1974
    “Bertrand Russell has written: I would not like to go to moksha, because I have heard that on the Siddhashila they have been sitting since eternity.”