1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.