Bertrand Russell1872–1970The quotations of
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician
1872–1970
105 quotes, most often on Anti-Religion, Philosophy and Thinking. Part of the Philosophers collection.
I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 80The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood’s Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 18: The Taming of PowerIs there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
The Problems of Philosophy (1912)To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Mortals and Others (1931-35)- Theory of Knowledge (1913)
- BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
- Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism
- Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918), Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy
- Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda
- Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 167
- Political Ideals (1917)
- Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power
- Introduction to The New Generation (1930)
- Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts
