If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Assim, para recapitular a nossa discussão do valor da filosofia: a filosofia é de estudar não por causa de quaisquer respostas definitivas… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In his philosophy, nothing is held to be quite true, and nothing quite false; what can be uttered has only a limited… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“An even more important philosophical contact was with the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who began as my pupil and ended as my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Noone has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consistent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — 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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