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
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — 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
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. — 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
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — 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
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — 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
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — 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
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
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 America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men… — 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
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
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 first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only… — 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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even… — 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
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — 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
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
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence… — 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
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
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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