Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — 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
Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — 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
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really'… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — 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
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — 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
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — 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
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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