The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact… — 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
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — 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
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — 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, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his… — 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 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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