What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — 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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