“The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy:… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — 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 have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — 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
