Quotes Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is t...

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to...

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as t...

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for triv...

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of...

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a cre...

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our inte...

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an exc...

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men t...

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but i...

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know....

Sin is geographical....

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospe...

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture a...

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's kno...

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence...

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the s...

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive societ...

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledg...

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a deligh...

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact tha...

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which ...

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to ...