Logo
Quote by Bertrand Russell
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and d

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Fear
Author
Bertrand Russell
Read Quote

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Math
Author
Bertrand Russell
Read Quote

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Farming
Author
Bertrand Russell
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Philosophy
category

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

Category:
Philosophy

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Philosophy

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Category:
Philosophy

Random Quotes

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but its not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own. – Louise Mensch

Category:
amazing

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden

Category:
Plagiarism

A lot of truth is said in jest. – Eminem

Category:
Truth