The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — 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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