“Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its… — 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
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
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — 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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