Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have… — 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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