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The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

Bertrand Russell
Dark, Wish, Spirit

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

Bertrand Russell
Math, Conformity, Regions

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Submission, Righteous Indignation
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Bertrand Russell
Mistake, Women, Science
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophical, Analysis, Problem
Bertrand Russell (2017). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.20, Jovian Press

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell
Science, Triumph, World
Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.484, Routledge

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Bertrand Russell
Travel, Adventure, Knowing
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.124, Routledge

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Bertrand Russell
Beauty, Beautiful, Real

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell
Beautiful, Power, Machines
Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions"

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Bertrand Russell
Realist, Results, Idealism
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript”, p.6, Routledge

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Obstacles, Dogmatism, Humans

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 helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.

Bertrand Russell
Art, Knowledge, Science

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell
Discovery, Mathematical Logic, Age
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Principles of Mathematics”, p.5, Routledge

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

Bertrand Russell
Outcomes
Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.551, Routledge

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Bertrand Russell
Stars, Passion, Heart
Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Bertrand Russell
Military, Thinking, Europe
Bertrand Russell (2007). “The Problem of China”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Bertrand Russell
Government, World, Initiative
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Lulu Press, Inc

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Bertrand Russell
Ignorance, Ignorant, Depth

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Giving, Important
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.15, Routledge

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Men, Thinking
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

Bertrand Russell
Book, Writing, Thinking

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

Bertrand Russell
Alive, Slave, Feds
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.115, Routledge

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

Bertrand Russell
Opinion, Sterilization, Should
Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Bertrand Russell
Knowledge, Science, Perception
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.380, Psychology Press

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bertrand Russell
Genius, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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