There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — 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
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — 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 stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. — 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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — 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
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. — 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
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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