I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — 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
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 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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