Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — 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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