66 result(s) for Bertrand Russell Quotes.
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."
"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about whatever comes to his mind."
"The only way to deal with the fool is to learn the fool's game."
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
"The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one that we preach but do not practice, and another that we practice but seldom preach."
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty."
"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"It's co-educational, but boys and girls must be educated in entirely separate buildings. The two sexes must not mix in the same building before the age of eighteen."
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive."
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you."
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"The trouble with the world is that the best people are full of doubts while the worst are full of confidence."
"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life."
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented hell."
"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death."
"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
"Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
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