Quotes Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particu...

War does not determine who is right - only who is left....

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has be...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to f...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to f...

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man w...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up h...

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a ...

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter...

If there were in the world today any large number of p...

Sin is geographical. ...

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you...

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdow...

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being sur...

The most savage controversies are those about matters ...

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much ab...

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much ab...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, m...

The point of philosophy is to start with something so ...

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally ...

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without bei...

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cock...

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing...

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed fo...