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
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — 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
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
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — 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
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — 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
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — 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
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — 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 Image
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 Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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