The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — 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
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — 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 immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are… — 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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