“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo 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
“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
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman 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 would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell, writing during World War I, castigates intellectuals for exactly this tendency: ‘In modern times, philosophers, professors, and intellectuals generally undertake… — Paul McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg 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
There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of… — Richard Dawkins 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
“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
“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 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
“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
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell” — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang 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
“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
Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
“Marxism, like all other totalitarian movements in our century, must be seen as kind of secular pattern of redemption , designed to… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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