Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Some of the deepest truths are simple, when seen in the clearest light, and it takes a lucid intellect to grasp them… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenseless children believe absurd propositions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to… — 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
“During the war, the holders of power in all countries found it necessary to bribe the populations into cooperation by unusual concessions.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the… — 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
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — 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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