Age Quotes by Bertrand Russell

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

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent…

— Bertrand Russell

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

— Bertrand Russell

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

— Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

— Bertrand Russell

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving…

— Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to…

— Bertrand Russell

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis…

— Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to…

— Bertrand Russell

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything…

— Bertrand Russell

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined…

— Bertrand Russell

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible…

— Bertrand Russell

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

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that…

— Bertrand Russell

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in…

— Bertrand Russell

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the…

— Bertrand Russell

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the…

— Bertrand Russell

The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching…

— Bertrand Russell

Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of…

— Bertrand Russell

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was…

— Bertrand Russell

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to…

— Bertrand Russell

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like…

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has…

— Bertrand Russell

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of…

— Bertrand Russell

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite…

— Bertrand Russell

You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful…

— Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and…

— Bertrand Russell

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

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

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs…

— Bertrand Russell