Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — 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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