The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure… — 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
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — 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
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power… — 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
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — 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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