1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Everybody has had at some time nightmares of falling, which seem to suggest an origin in the lives of our arboreal ancestors, though this perhaps is fanciful

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.