Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — 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
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger… — 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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