What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand RussellTags: knowledge belief discovery
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand RussellMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand RussellThe true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand RussellAristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand RussellTags: science men women prejudice aristotle misconceptions
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand RussellPhilosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Bertrand RussellMan needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand RussellHow, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother. In spite of death, the mark and seal of the parental control, man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticize, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is aquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.
Bertrand RussellTags: philosophy
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