Best Bertrand Russell Quotations
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… Agree
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… Admits
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… All
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… Chief
- There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. Crank
- Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created… Arithmetic
- But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… Been
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. Little
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… Cosmos
- The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… Age
- To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an… Animal
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… Assimilated
- Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. Achievement
- We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… Apt
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… Any
- I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But… Annihilation
- Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. All
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. All
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they… Any
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. Atheism
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and… Atheism
- Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. Assume
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. All
- There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between… Battleship
- I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is… Appear
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