Bertrand Russell Quotes About Emotions

• We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Religion, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

• We know too much and feel too little.

  Bertrand Russell

  Littles, Too Much, Emotion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.38, Routledge

• We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Spring, Creative

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.38, Routledge

• Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Giving, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

• Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Vision, Dominion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.337, Routledge

• Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Important, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.65, Psychology Press

• With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Football, War, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.451, Routledge

• Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dangerous World, Worry, Emotion

• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Wisdom, Emotional

  "Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

• The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Rights, Emotion, Slave

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