207 Quotations by Bertrand Russell
- 121. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
- 122. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
- 123. Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...
- 124. Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest ...
- 125. Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughou ...
- 126. Science is what you know; philosophy what you don't know.
- 127. Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- 128. Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable h ...
- 129. Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable h ...
- 130. Sin is geographical.
- 131. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- 132. The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above pass ...
- 133. The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know ...
- 134. The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress ...
- 135. The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins ...
- 136. The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; ...
- 137. The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundame ...
- 138. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to b ...
- 139. The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- 140. The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
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