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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell
Funny, Family, Dad
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

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Innovation, Enabling, Serious
Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.74, Psychology Press

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Bertrand Russell
Hope, Men, Expectations
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Routledge

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

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Mean, Science, Mathematical Logic
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell
Success, Boredom, Achievement
"The Conquest of Happiness".

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

Bertrand Russell
Children, Race, Law
Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.125, Psychology Press

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

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War, Men, Love Is
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.74, Routledge

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

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Teacher, Math, Subtlety
"The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

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Loneliness, Speak, Should
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.137, Routledge

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Bertrand Russell
Civilization, Long, Psychology

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Bertrand Russell
Good Life, Heart, Virtue
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

Bertrand Russell
Suicide, Years, Enjoy Life
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Bertrand Russell
Happy Life, Passionate, Source
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Courier Corporation

A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Luck, Gold
Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

Bertrand Russell
Years, Heaven, Surprise
BBC interview on "Face to Face"; The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503, 1959.

You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

Bertrand Russell
Country, Art, Powerful

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Bertrand Russell
Pain, Believe, Men
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.217, Psychology Press

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

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Heaven, Looks, Speak
Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2001). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.87, Psychology Press

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

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Logic, Architecture, Mathematics
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.95, Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

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World, Lasts, Savior

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell
Facts, Belief, Contrary
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.35, Psychology Press

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Bertrand Russell
Small Numbers, Progress, Age
Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.112, Psychology Press

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Bertrand Russell
Respect, People, Machines
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.46, Routledge

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Bertrand Russell
Years, Giving, Ends
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.35, Routledge

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Bertrand Russell
Apples
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.30, Routledge

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