If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were… — 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
A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental… — 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
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble.… — 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
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — 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
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — 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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