It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand RussellWhen we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
Bertrand RussellAlthough it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
Bertrand RussellLanguage serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand RussellI read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.
Bertrand RussellIf the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.
Bertrand Russell