“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What we shall desire for individuals is now clear: strong creative impulses, overpowering and absorbing the instinct of possession; reverence for others;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political… — 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