...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — 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
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — 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
I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to… — 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
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no… — 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
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where… — 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
The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — 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
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — 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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