“Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. — 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
“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study… — 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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It… — 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
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
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
