Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities….

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin;….

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety..

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it….

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the uni….

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept….

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck..

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform..

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact..

Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it wer….

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance..

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the sa….

With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples ha….

BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far b….

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle..

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery..

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more con….

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness..

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism wi….

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to r….