Quotes by Philosophers

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. Bertrand Russell
Man Logical Will Conviction Favour Finds Habit Emotional He Himself Intensity Which Who Grounds Reasoning Search Belief
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell
Death Time Thoughts Fate Worship Finds He Himself Devour Greater Because His Than Doomed Anything Which Things Slave
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. Bertrand Russell
Democracy Eloquence Citizens Immunity Importance Acquire Utmost Utmost Importance
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. Bertrand Russell
Work People Matter First Other Relative Earth Telling Kinds Altering Surface Near Second Two Position
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell
Will Believe Out Exact Exact Opposite Find Opposite Wanted Which
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell
Society Fathers Our Children Want Them Dad Fundamental Credit Defect Competitive
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell
Savage Good Matters Way Evidence About Most Controversies Either Which
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. Bertrand Russell
Problem Logical Word Sense Every Analysis Else Philosophical Philosophical Problem Subjected Either Which Justification Really Using Found Necessary
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. Bertrand Russell
Life Time Freedom Those Mutations Only Shall Longer Goods Subject Yield Personal Any Them Ask Who
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. Bertrand Russell
You Liberty License Like Right
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Bertrand Russell
Age Power Ideology Dams Machine Proletariat Machine Age Stations Admiration Part Like Aeroplanes
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell
Experience Result Word Perceived More More And More Idealism Been Ambiguity Revolt Against Realists Avoided
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. Bertrand Russell
You Must Name Particular Understand Which Acquainted
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. Bertrand Russell
Fate Destroys Seems Struggled Idealists Ideals Obtain Form Which
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell
Science World Everything Distinguishes Triumphs Almost Almost Everything Most Attributable Modern Achieved Which Modern World Centuries Century Earlier Spectacular
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. Bertrand Russell
Awareness Conceiving Concept Which Aware Universal
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. Blaise Pascal
Justice Will Our Examination Laws Thus Since Without Just Established Regarded Necessarily
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal
Alone Struggle Victory Pleases Us
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal
Me Silence Space Frighten Infinite Spaces Eternal
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. Blaise Pascal
Me Prosperity Matter Weather Mood Foggy Fine Misfortune Days Within Little Connection
Men blaspheme what they do not know. Blaise Pascal
Men Know
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. Blaise Pascal
Great Man Tree Wretched He Know Himself Knows Does Greatness Itself
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Blaise Pascal
Good Nature Man Lost Everything True True Nature Becomes His Being
Vanity is but the surface. Blaise Pascal
Vanity Surface
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal
Wish Those Having Write Written Well Read Fame Against Them Who Works Even Desire
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. Blaise Pascal
Love Natural Mind Will Believe Must Objects Attach True False Want To Love Themselves
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