I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — 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
Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — 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
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — 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
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — 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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. — 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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the… — 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
No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he… — 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
