Men Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

— Bertrand Russell

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

— Bertrand Russell

Beware the man of the single book

— Bertrand Russell

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

— Bertrand Russell

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

— Bertrand Russell

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

— Bertrand Russell

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

— Bertrand Russell

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

— Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

— Bertrand Russell

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know…

— Bertrand Russell

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

— Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

— Bertrand Russell

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man…

— Bertrand Russell

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

— Bertrand Russell

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to…

— Bertrand Russell

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even…

— Bertrand Russell

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and…

— Bertrand Russell

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are…

— Bertrand Russell

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults…

— Bertrand Russell

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are…

— Bertrand Russell

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a…

— Bertrand Russell

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,…

— Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not…

— Bertrand Russell

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

— Bertrand Russell

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or…

— Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of…

— Bertrand Russell

With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the…

— Bertrand Russell

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that…

— Bertrand Russell

You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful…

— Bertrand Russell

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man…

— Bertrand Russell

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,…

— Bertrand Russell

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…

— Bertrand Russell