Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — 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
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to take progress for granted: to assume without hesitation that the changes which have happened during the last hundred… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — 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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