Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

- Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

- Bertrand Russell

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

- Bertrand Russell

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

- Bertrand Russell

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

- Bertrand Russell

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

- Bertrand Russell

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

- Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

- Bertrand Russell