Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher. — 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
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to see the world truly, to rise in thought above the tyranny of practical desires, must learn to overcome the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — 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
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It has been argued that we have reason to know that the future will resemble the past, because what was the future… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before; and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Most men think that in framing their political opinions they are actuated by desire for the public good; but 9 times out… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys… — 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
