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Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A priori logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the axiom of choice, but for shoes the axiom is not needed (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The atomists, unlike Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I find it so difficult not to hate, when I do not hate I feel we few are so lonely in the world (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion? (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian God may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Science seems to be at war with itself... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false (Bertrand Russell Quotes)