Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and mathematician

Lived from: 1872 - 1970

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 may 1872 Died: 2 february 1970

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  • Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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  • For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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  • Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
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  • Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
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  • Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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  • Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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  • Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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  • I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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  • I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
    The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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  • I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
    Collection 1: , Brighthouse
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  • I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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  • I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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  • If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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  • If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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  • If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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  • If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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  • In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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  • In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
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  • In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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  • Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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