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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  • Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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  • Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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  • Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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  • Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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  • Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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  • Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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  • Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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  • Sin is geographical.
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  • So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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  • The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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  • The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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  • The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
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  • The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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  • The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
    Sceptical Essays
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  • The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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  • The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
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  • The height of the pedestals of the statues we erect to our national heroes is mostly proportional to the number of people they killed.
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  • The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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  • The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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