Best Bertrand Russell Sayings
- Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their… Chiefly
- What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. Bright
- Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. Agree
- What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. Food
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… Chief
- The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few… Few
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… Acute
- Worry is a form of fear. Fear
- The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Advantage
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Creative
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. All
- This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. Extermination
- Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale Astronomical
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… All
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… Broadest
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa… Attempting
- Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… Advance
- Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know. Inspirational
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a… Examination
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. All
- In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… Achievement
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… Achieve
- All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. All
- Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact… Arthur
- We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… Call
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