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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage (Bertrand Russell Quotes)