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
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — 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
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without… — 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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