The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — 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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