Would be Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

— Bertrand Russell

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

— Bertrand Russell

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one…

— Bertrand Russell

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is…

— Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to…

— Bertrand Russell

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without…

— Bertrand Russell

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly…

— Bertrand Russell

Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those…

— Bertrand Russell

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for…

— Bertrand Russell

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest…

— Bertrand Russell

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of…

— Bertrand Russell

But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or…

— Bertrand Russell

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern…

— Bertrand Russell

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

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because…

— Bertrand Russell

The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing…

— Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that…

— Bertrand Russell

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the…

— Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may…

— Bertrand Russell

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it.…

— Bertrand Russell

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any…

— Bertrand Russell

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it…

— Bertrand Russell

There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be…

— Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing…

— Bertrand Russell