I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. — 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
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought… — 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
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were… — 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 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
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'.… — 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
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
You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — 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
In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine,… — 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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