1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Bertrand Russell: Human (page 2)
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"The Argument from Design"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Variant: An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy.Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
On History (1904)
1900s
"The Doctrine of Free Will"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
Part I, Ch. 9: International Policy
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
“How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.”
A characteristic saying of Russell, reported by Aldous Huxley in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated 8 October 1917, as quoted in Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (Routledge, 2013)
1910s
Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 7: The Case for Socialism
1950s, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
"If We are to Survive this Dark Time", The New York Times Magazine (3 September 1950)
1950s
Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318
1910s
Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 20: The Happy Man, p. 201
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 198
Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902
1900s
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Letter to Lord Gladwyn, November 14, 1964.There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
1960s
Source: 1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Chapter XXXI "The Philosophy of Logical Analysis"
Source: 1950s, My Philosophical Development (1959), p. 261
Letter to Colette, December 28, 1916
1910s