Bertrand Russell Philosophical Quotes — Page 16

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

Suffering Wicked Injustice

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.”

Children Wisdom Winter

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Philosophical

“Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.”

Mean Race Skills

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Philosophical

“The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.”

People Thinking Skills

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Philosophical

“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”

Body Desire Action

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Philosophical

“The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.”

Men Inspirational Average

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Philosophical

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

Children Father Dad

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Philosophical

“You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.”

Matter Facts Devil

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Philosophical

“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Enjoy Wasting Time Wasted Time

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Philosophical

“Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.”

Giving Science Wisdom

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Philosophical

“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”

Men Wife Math

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Philosophical

“I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.”

Life Is Window Other Worlds

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Bertrand Russell — Philosophical Quotes

Bertrand Russell Quotes