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

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

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Renounce, Should
"The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Bertrand Russell
Tolerance, Quality, Isms
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.160, Routledge

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

Bertrand Russell
Powerful, Spring, War

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Bertrand Russell
Sweet, Men, Order
Bertrand Russell, Harry Ruja (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.115, Routledge

With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Men, Hands

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Greatness, Mind
Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

Bertrand Russell
Fearless, Generations, Educated
Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.205, Routledge

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell
Country, Psychology, Moral
Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

Bertrand Russell
Nice, Omnipotence, People
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

Bertrand Russell
Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell
Common Sense, Important, Logic

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Bertrand Russell
Envy, Intellectual, Vices
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Bertrand Russell
Marriage, Instinct, Mankind

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Hopeless, Whole
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.166, Routledge

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Skills, Satisfaction
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.104, Routledge

Do not feel certain of anything.

Bertrand Russell
Certain, Feels

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Bertrand Russell
Book, Literature, Infinity

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

Bertrand Russell
Science, World, Merit
Bertrand Russell (1929). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, New York, Norton

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

Bertrand Russell
Suicide, Math, Commit
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.38, Psychology Press

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