Littles Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

— Bertrand Russell

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

— Bertrand Russell

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

— Bertrand Russell

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the…

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good…

— Bertrand Russell

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

— Bertrand Russell

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge…

— Bertrand Russell

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

— Bertrand Russell

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and…

— Bertrand Russell

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of…

— Bertrand Russell

Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to…

— Bertrand Russell

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of…

— Bertrand Russell

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

— Bertrand Russell

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only…

— Bertrand Russell

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians…

— Bertrand Russell

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking…

— Bertrand Russell

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

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate…

— Bertrand Russell

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or…

— Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

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

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever…

— Bertrand Russell

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is…

— Bertrand Russell

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of…

— Bertrand Russell

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

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