Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious. — 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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — 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
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
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — 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
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid. — 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 do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far… — 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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