1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

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

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.