Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — 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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the… — 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
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy:… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — 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
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — 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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