You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have… — 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
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — 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
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. — 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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