I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively 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
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — 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
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an… — 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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