Bertrand Russell Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”

“Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”

“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.”

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”

“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.”

“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.”

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.”

“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.”

“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.”