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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  • It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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  • It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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  • It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
    Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
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  • It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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  • It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
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  • It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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  • Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
    The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914
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  • Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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  • Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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  • Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
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  • Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
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  • Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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  • Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
    Philosophy and Politics
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  • Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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  • Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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  • Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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  • Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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  • Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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  • Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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  • Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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