Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small… — 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
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in… — 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 for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — 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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