Best Bertrand Russell Wisdom
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. Attitude
- What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Happiness
- You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go. Any
- Love is wise – Hatred is foolish. Foolish
- If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so? Destroy
- Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. All
- Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound! Argument
- There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that… Birth
- If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result… All
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.… Belief
- Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. Incompatible
- Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal… Any
- Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,… Brother
- The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children. Adults
- Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent Advance
- When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Exact
- Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. Calculus
- Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. Calculus
- Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. Belief
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… Abstract
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as… Age
- Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion… Analytic
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… Absence
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. Admit
- I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in… Belief
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