--- title: "13 Subjects Quotes By Bertrand Russell" description: "13 Subjects quotes by Bertrand Russell. Plus more from Bertrand Russell and more Subjects sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/bertrand-russell-69_development_physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-s_2512385.jpg" --- > [Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-subject-matter-has-reached-a/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/bertrand-russell-69_development_physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-s_2512385.jpg) > [The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstacle-to-a-decent-attitude-on/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/bertrand-russell-69_attitude_the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstac_1669155.jpg) > [Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-assertions-to-the-effect-that-2/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/bertrand-russell-69_assertion_pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-as_3027277.jpg) > [The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-late-f-w-h-myers-used-to-tell-how-he-asked-a-man-at-a-dinner/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/bertrand-russell-69_bliss_the-late-f-w-h-myers-used-to-tell-how-he_2274404.jpg) > [Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/certain-characteristics-of-the-subject-are-clear-to-begin-with-we-do/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/543/bertrand-russell-69_certain_certain-characteristics-of-the-subject-a_604471.jpg) > [Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/prophets-mystics-poets-scientific-discoverers-are-men-whose-lives-are/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/bertrand-russell-69_dominion_prophets-mystics-poets-scientific-discov_266080.jpg) > [ As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which \[his family\] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-interested-in-philosophy-or-which/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/bertrand-russell-69_family_as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-inter_3172729.jpg) > [Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/throughout-the-long-period-of-religious-doubt-i-had-been-rendered/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/bertrand-russell-69_belief_throughout-the-long-period-of-religious_2970616.jpg) > [I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-most-importance-politically-is/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/bertrand-russell-69_able_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1608800.jpg) > [It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplating-a-book-on-some-subject-and/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/bertrand-russell-69_attention_it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplati_2961807.jpg) > [I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-most-importance-politically-is-2/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/bertrand-russell-69_class_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1876671.jpg) > [Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/almost-all-education-has-a-political-motive-it-aims-at-strengthening/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/bertrand-russell-69_acquire_almost-all-education-has-a-political-mot_2723038.jpg) > [The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-social-psychologist-of-the-future-will-have-a-number-of-classes/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff9/bertrand-russell-69_able_the-social-psychologist-of-the-future-wi_973181.jpg) ## Other authors on Subjects ## More by Bertrand Russell > [ If the State does not acquire supremacy over \[vast private\] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/if-the-state-does-not-acquire-supremacy-over-vast-private-enterprises/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/that-the-world-is-in-a-bad-shape-is-undeniable-but-there-is-not-the/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [All movements go too far.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/all-movements-go-too-far/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/those-who-advocate-common-usage-in-philosophy-sometimes-speak-in-a/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/such-in-outline-but-even-more-purposeless-more-void-of-meaning-is-the/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/dr-arnold-the-admired-reformer-of-public-schools-came-across-some/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/of-all-evils-of-war-the-greatest-is-the-purely-spiritual-evil-the/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/aristotle-maintained-that-women-have-fewer-teeth-than-men-although-he/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/if-an-opinion-contrary-to-your-own-makes-you-angry-that-is-a-sign/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-cannot-escape-from-the-conclusion-that-the-great-ages-of-progress/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-think-it-would-be-just-to-say-the-most-essential-characteristic-of/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-newspapers-at-one-time-said-that-i-was-dead-but-after-carefully/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/persecution-is-used-in-theology-not-in-arithmetic-because-in/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/many-orthodox-people-speak-as-though-it-were-the-business-of-sceptics/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) > [There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/there-is-no-greater-reason-for-children-to-honour-parents-than-for/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/subjects/bertrand-russell/#itemlist", "name": "13 Subjects Quotes By Bertrand Russell", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-subject-matter-has-reached-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/bertrand-russell-69_development_physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-s_2512385.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/bertrand-russell-69_development_physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-s_2512385.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/bertrand-russell-69_development_physics-owing-to-the-simplicity-of-its-s_2512385.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstacle-to-a-decent-attitude-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/bertrand-russell-69_attitude_the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstac_1669155.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/bertrand-russell-69_attitude_the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstac_1669155.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/bertrand-russell-69_attitude_the-taboo-against-nakedness-is-an-obstac_1669155.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing… Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-assertions-to-the-effect-that-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/bertrand-russell-69_assertion_pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-as_3027277.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/bertrand-russell-69_assertion_pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-as_3027277.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/bertrand-russell-69_assertion_pure-mathematics-consists-entirely-of-as_3027277.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The late F. 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Never mind.\" After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-interested-in-philosophy-or-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/bertrand-russell-69_family_as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-inter_3172729.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/bertrand-russell-69_family_as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-inter_3172729.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/bertrand-russell-69_family_as-i-grew-up-i-became-increasingly-inter_3172729.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/throughout-the-long-period-of-religious-doubt-i-had-been-rendered/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/bertrand-russell-69_belief_throughout-the-long-period-of-religious_2970616.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/bertrand-russell-69_belief_throughout-the-long-period-of-religious_2970616.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/bertrand-russell-69_belief_throughout-the-long-period-of-religious_2970616.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part… It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-most-importance-politically-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/bertrand-russell-69_able_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1608800.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/bertrand-russell-69_able_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1608800.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/bertrand-russell-69_able_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1608800.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking… Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplating-a-book-on-some-subject-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/bertrand-russell-69_attention_it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplati_2961807.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/bertrand-russell-69_attention_it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplati_2961807.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/bertrand-russell-69_attention_it-appeared-that-after-first-contemplati_2961807.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary…” — Bertrand Russell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bertrand Russell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-most-importance-politically-is-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/bertrand-russell-69_class_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1876671.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/bertrand-russell-69_class_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1876671.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/bertrand-russell-69_class_i-think-the-subject-which-will-be-of-mos_1876671.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... 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