Bertrand Russell

“The immense majority of even the noblest persons' actions have self-regarding motives, nor is this to be regretted, since if it were…

— Bertrand Russell

“Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.”

— Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

— Bertrand Russell

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual…

— Bertrand Russell

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

— Bertrand Russell

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or…

— Bertrand Russell

“Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views…

— Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

— Bertrand Russell

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

— Bertrand Russell

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments…

— Bertrand Russell

“A bad teacher will will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give…

— Bertrand Russell

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers…

— Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

— Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the…

— Bertrand Russell

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.…

— Bertrand Russell

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that…

— Bertrand Russell

“Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a…

— Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this…

— Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

— Bertrand Russell

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect…

— Bertrand Russell

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have…

— Bertrand Russell

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

— Bertrand Russell

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not…

— Bertrand Russell