A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — 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
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken… — 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
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his… — 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
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
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
Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence… — 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
Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or… — 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 often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.… — 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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