The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba… — 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
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with… — 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
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions… — 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
“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us… — 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
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — 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
“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“the great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about.… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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