In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. — 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
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. — 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
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
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left… — 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
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
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal,… — 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
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
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children… — 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
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
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost… — 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
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — 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
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — 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
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — 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
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — 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
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. — 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
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure. — 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
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
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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