“War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell” — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The famous atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.” — Dan DeWitt Copy Share Image
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?" — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Voltaire got it right long ago: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ So did Bertrand Russell:… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Pleroma is the totality. The superset. Magisteria are the subsets.” Eat your heart out, Bertrand Russell. “We all have one. Even… — Ian Tregillis Copy Share Image
“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know, the hotter you get. —BERTRAND RUSSELL” — Joel Tillinghast Copy Share Image
“As Bertrand Russell is often reported to have said, “The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, ‘This hand you are shaking once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell once described mathematical beauty in the following words: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
“Any religious expression of truth, however bizzare or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secular one, however elegant and intellectually brilliant. Animistic… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in a 1928 essay, laypeople must evaluate expert claims by exercising their own careful logic as… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Women, whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“An even more important philosophical contact was with the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who began as my pupil and ended as my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain’s list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“The traditional illustration of the direct rule-based approach is the “three laws of robotics” concept, formulated by science fiction author Isaac Asimov… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
