Bertrand Russel Man Quotations

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for a man

The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some