Best Bertrand Russell Quotes
- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and… Advice
- Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. Cannot Supply
- Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to… Driven
- Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. Accident
- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. Cannot Insure
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. Cannot Know
- Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. Cruel
- The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they… Abandonment
- Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world. Children
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;… Abomination
- It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. Barren
- Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Change
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. Attempt
- There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes. Difference
- Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. Best
- Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. Both
- There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. Antidote
- Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. Cloaks
- Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. Absurd
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three… Become Extinct
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… Almost Indefinite
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… Allowed
- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… All
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… Arranged
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… Accidental
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