All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — 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
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs… — 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
It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — 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
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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