Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of… — 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
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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