Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes. — 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
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — 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
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
Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — 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
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little… — 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
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — 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
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — 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 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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