Bertrand Russell Quotes About Common Sense

• The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Color, Common Sense

  Bertrand Russell (1959). “The problems of philosophy”

• Common sense, however it tries,
  cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Common Sense, Trying, Logic

• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

• John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

  Bertrand Russell

  Common Sense, Common, Englishmen

• Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Common Sense, Important, Logic

• The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Taken, Common Sense

• Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Common Sense, May

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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