The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post…

Quote by Bertrand Russell

Topics: Mind Quotes

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy...

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy...

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with...

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish...

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

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

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...

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if...

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if...

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance...

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance...

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite...

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite...

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is...

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is...

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

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

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...

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he...

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he...

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of...

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of...

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents...

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents...

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.