I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — 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
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal,… — 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
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it. — 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
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique. — 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
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