Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting… — 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
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 the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — 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
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — 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
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
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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