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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

Bertrand Russell
Mistake, Appearance, Natural
Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.187, Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell
Art, Responsibility, Sacrifice
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Action, Achieve
Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.190, Psychology Press

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Belief, Certain
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Bertrand Russell
People, Human Nature, Pleasure
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.106, Psychology Press

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

Bertrand Russell
World, Ifs
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.62, Routledge

William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was 'A smell of petroleum prevails throughout'.

Bertrand Russell
Laughter, Men, Smell
Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.109, Routledge

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Bertrand Russell
Good Life, Happy Life, Life Is
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.144, Lulu Press, Inc

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

Bertrand Russell
Dream, Believe, Waking Life
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, United States, Needs
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.146, Psychology Press

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Thinking, Done
Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.11, Psychology Press

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Bertrand Russell
Death, Time, Fate
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

Bertrand Russell
Country, War, Europe
Bertrand Russell (1994). “Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16”, p.7, Psychology Press

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell
Political, Motive
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.403, Psychology Press

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

Bertrand Russell
Taken, Mean, Animal

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Bertrand Russell
Dog, Animal, Parent

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Bertrand Russell
Fire, People, Theatre
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.64, Routledge

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

Bertrand Russell
Art, Class, Two
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.24, Routledge

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Bertrand Russell
Would Be, World, Charity
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.133, Routledge

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Expression, Class

Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Race, Secret
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.131, Routledge

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

Bertrand Russell
Knives, Appreciate, Important
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Sunday, Kissing
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.30, Routledge

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

Bertrand Russell
Men, States, Obvious
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell
Looks, World, Faces
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.193, Psychology Press

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