Bertrand Russell Idealism Quotes

#1. What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

Edward Young

#2. Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Joseph Campbell

#3. We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Chief Joseph

#4. Any fool can sell a jewell -
an angel gives it away

Jackson Browne

#5. The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Bertrand Russell

#6. Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

John Barton

#7. From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.

Bertrand Russell

#8. 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

#9. But you have to choose: live or tell.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell