Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Quote by Bertrand Russell

Topics: Death Quotes

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion...

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion...

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation...

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation...

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an...

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an...

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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

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

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

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

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual...

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we...

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we...

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in...

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it...

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men,...

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men,...

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope...

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope...

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the...

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the...

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously

I think; therefore I am.

I think; therefore I am.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...