The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind… — 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
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — 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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