To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
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