Quote

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
Autobiographer
Epistemologist
Essayist
Journalist
Logician
Mathematician
Metaphysician
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Tryleg
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Russell
Bertrand Russell
3rd Earl Russell
Bertrand Russell
Earl Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
3rd Earl Russell
Rather
Force
Ideas
Reason
Controlling
Innovation
Creativity
Creative

More quotes by Bertrand Russell

Image
Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.
Bertrand Russell
Image
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.
Bertrand Russell
Image
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
Bertrand Russell
Image
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.
Bertrand Russell
Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Bertrand Russell
Image
When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
Bertrand Russell
Image
It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
Bertrand Russell
Image
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Bertrand Russell
Image
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
Image
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
Bertrand Russell
Image
War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
Bertrand Russell
Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
Bertrand Russell