Whole Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

— Bertrand Russell

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

— Bertrand Russell

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is…

— Bertrand Russell

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,…

— Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than…

— Bertrand Russell

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole…

— Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is…

— Bertrand Russell

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring…

— Bertrand Russell

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed…

— Bertrand Russell

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find…

— Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation…

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based…

— Bertrand Russell

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of…

— Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in…

— Bertrand Russell

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous…

— Bertrand Russell

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,…

— Bertrand Russell

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves…

— Bertrand Russell