Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation…

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence…

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure…

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired…

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which…

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful…

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing…

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with…

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power…

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with…

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know…

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away…

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions…

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult…

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy…