Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — 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
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — 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
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — 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
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even… — 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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