Top 25 Quotes by Bertrand Russell of 1194 - Page 35

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Bertrand Russell

Simple, Perfect, Language

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Bertrand Russell

Creative, Done, Firsts

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Bertrand Russell

Truth, Wish, Politics

Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.406, Psychology Press

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Bertrand Russell

Government, United States, Divine Revelation

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.51, Routledge

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Bertrand Russell

Exercise, Principles, Modern Life

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

Yield, Mutation, Materialism

Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.69, Psychology Press

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Bertrand Russell

Husband, Men, Wife

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.22, Routledge

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Bertrand Russell

Wise, Wisdom, Civilization

Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity, Needs, Satisfaction

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

Bertrand Russell

Thinking, People, Labels

Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.40, Routledge

It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

Bertrand Russell

Heart, Skills, Training

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Bertrand Russell

Psychology, Disease, Should

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Bertrand Russell

Gun, Metaphysical, Ironclads

Bertrand Russell (1994). “Philosophical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

Bertrand Russell

Hurt, Essence, Good Man

Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.160, Routledge

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

Bertrand Russell

Home, Mean, Thinking

Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.25, Psychology Press

It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.

Bertrand Russell

Children, Law, Public Opinion

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.270, Routledge