Bertrand Russell Quotes — Page 27

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.”

Important Passion Individual

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Love

“Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.”

Children Love Brother

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Angry

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

Ignorant Umpires

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Spiritual

“A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.”

Smell Petroleum

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Philosophical

“The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.”

Happiness Satisfaction Enterprise

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Philosophical

“a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

Men Cutting Flower

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Angry

“I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.”

Father Hate Pride

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Philosophical

“The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.”

Heart Civilization Hatred

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Philosophical

“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”

Philosophy Knowing Ignorance

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Philosophical

“Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.”

Spiritual Soul Quality

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Philosophical

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

Math Conformity Regions

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Philosophical

“Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.”

Hunting Impulse Outlets

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