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Bertrand Russell Books
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The Conquest of Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,631 ratings — published 1930
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,771 ratings — published 1957
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.89 — 19,211 ratings — published 1912
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,315 ratings — published 1945
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,905 ratings — published 1935
What I Believe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,254 ratings — published 1925
Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,350 ratings — published 1935
Unpopular Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,500 ratings — published 1950
Marriage and Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,501 ratings — published 1929
Mysticism and Logic (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,123 ratings — published 1910
Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,439 ratings — published 1951
Sceptical Essays (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 9 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,455 ratings — published 1928
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,605 ratings — published 1918
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,979 ratings — published 2009
The Analysis of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.80 — 780 ratings — published 1921
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,065 ratings — published 1918
Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.87 — 856 ratings — published 1938
Political Ideals (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.81 — 890 ratings — published 1917
Education and the Social Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.02 — 209 ratings — published 1932
The Scientific Outlook (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.81 — 694 ratings — published 1931
The ABC of Relativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,379 ratings — published 1925
في التربية (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.04 — 412 ratings — published 1926
Our Knowledge of the External World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.99 — 362 ratings — published 1914
Russell: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.54 — 353 ratings — published 1996
An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.92 — 186 ratings — published 1940
Authority and the Individual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,002 ratings — published 1949
The Principles of Mathematics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.06 — 431 ratings — published 1903
In Praise of Idleness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,042 ratings — published 1932
العالم كما أراه (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,197 ratings — published 1960
تاريخ الفلسفة الغربية - الكتاب الأول: الفلسفة القديمة (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,216 ratings — published 1945
تاريخ الفلسفة الغربية - الكتاب الثالث: الفلسفة الحديثة (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.99 — 500 ratings — published 1945
Icarus or the Future of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.77 — 111 ratings — published 1959
My Philosophical Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.72 — 154 ratings — published 1959
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.36 — 609 ratings — published 1959
تاريخ الفلسفة الغربية - الكتاب الثاني: الفلسفة الكاثوليكية (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.75 — 582 ratings — published 1946
Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.58 — 333 ratings — published 1953
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.97 — 420 ratings — published 1920
The Art of Philosophizing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.06 — 226 ratings — published 1968
Portraits From Memory and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.96 — 191 ratings — published 1956
An Outline of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.76 — 316 ratings — published 1927
Wisdom of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.10 — 400 ratings — published 1959
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.07 — 244 ratings — published 1948
Dictionary of Mind, Matter & Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 1952
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
Principia Mathematica to '56 (Mathematical Library)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.98 — 213 ratings — published 1913
My Father, Bertrand Russell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 4.09 — 34 ratings — published 1975
Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.59 — 237 ratings — published 1954
Why Men Fight (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.96 — 255 ratings — published 1916
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.75 — 330 ratings — published 1985
Bertrand Russell: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bertrand-russell)
avg rating 3.57 — 28 ratings — published 1992
“...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?"
"What of it?"
"Well, how can that be real?"
"Prove that it is not," said Xenophilius.
Hermione looked outraged.
"But that's—I'm sorry, but that's completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove it doesn't exist? Do you expect me to get hold of—of all the pebbles in the world, and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"What of it?"
"Well, how can that be real?"
"Prove that it is not," said Xenophilius.
Hermione looked outraged.
"But that's—I'm sorry, but that's completely ridiculous! How can I possibly prove it doesn't exist? Do you expect me to get hold of—of all the pebbles in the world, and test them? I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Bertrand Russell, too old for military service, but an ardent pacifist (a rare combination), turned sharply on me one afternoon and asked: ‘Tell me, if a company of your men were brought along to break a strike of munition makers, and the munition makers refused to go back to work, would you order the men to fire?’
‘Yes, if everything else failed. It would be no worse than shooting Germans, really.’
He asked in surprise: ‘Would your men obey you?’
‘They loathe munition-workers, and would be only too glad of a chance to shoot a few. They think that they’re all skrim-shankers.’
‘But they realize that the war’s all wicked nonsense?’
‘Yes, as well as I do.’
He could not understand my attitude.”
― Goodbye to All That
‘Yes, if everything else failed. It would be no worse than shooting Germans, really.’
He asked in surprise: ‘Would your men obey you?’
‘They loathe munition-workers, and would be only too glad of a chance to shoot a few. They think that they’re all skrim-shankers.’
‘But they realize that the war’s all wicked nonsense?’
‘Yes, as well as I do.’
He could not understand my attitude.”
― Goodbye to All That