World Quotes by Bertrand Russell

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

— Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

— Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

— Bertrand Russell

One must care about a world one will not see.

— Bertrand Russell

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

— Bertrand Russell

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

— Bertrand Russell

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

— Bertrand Russell

I do so hate to leave this world

— Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

— Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

— Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

— Bertrand Russell

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

— Bertrand Russell

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE…

— Bertrand Russell

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he…

— Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an…

— Bertrand Russell

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an…

— Bertrand Russell

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I…

— Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions…

— Bertrand Russell

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just…

— Bertrand Russell

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,…

— Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure…

— Bertrand Russell

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical…

— Bertrand Russell

In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten…

— Bertrand Russell

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of…

— Bertrand Russell

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right…

— 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

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every…

— Bertrand Russell

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase…

— Bertrand Russell

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

But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant…

— Bertrand Russell

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this…

— Bertrand Russell

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in…

— Bertrand Russell

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…

— Bertrand Russell

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal…

— Bertrand Russell

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the…

— Bertrand Russell

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,…

— Bertrand Russell

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

— Bertrand Russell