More Bertrand Russell Quotes

1. 'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, ...
   
2. A process which led from the amoeba to man appeare ...
   
3. A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive i ...
   
4. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says ca ...
   
5. All exact science is dominated by the idea of appr ...
   
6. All movements go too far. ...
   
7. Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth t ...
   
8. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since ...
   
9. But all who are not lunitics are agreed about cert ...
   
10. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change ...
    
11. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every ...
    
12. Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ...
    
13. Education, which was at first made universal in or ...
    
14. Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamo ...
    
15. Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeki ...
    
16. Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a c ...
    
17. Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize ...
    
18. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one o ...
    
19. Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destr ...
    
20. Few people can be happy unless they hate some othe ...
    
21. Freedom of opinion can only exist when the governm ...
    
22. Government can easily exist without laws, but law ...
    
23. Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than ...
    
24. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill ...
    
25. I should wish to see a world in which education ai ...
    
26. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions ...
    
27. I would never die for my beliefs because I might b ...
    
28. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a ...
    
29. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his ...
    
30. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our p ...
    
31. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is ...
    
32. If there were in the world today any large number ...
    
33. In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then t ...
    
34. In all things it is a good idea to hang a question ...
    
35. In the part of this universe that we know there is ...
    
36. It has been said that man is a rational animal. Al ...
    
37. It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who ...
    
38. It is because modern education is so seldom inspir ...
    
39. It is clear that thought is not free if the profes ...
    
40. It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capab ...
    
41. It is preoccupation with possessions, more than an ...
    
42. It is undesirable to believe a proposition when th ...
    
43. It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you ...
    
44. Life is nothing but a competition to be the crimin ...
    
45. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe someth ...
    
46. Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyme ...
    
47. Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, ...
    
48. Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which ...
    
49. Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute n ...
    
50. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth ...
    
51. Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made s ...
    
52. Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on eart ...
    
53. Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are ...
    
54. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact t ...
    
55. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred o ...
    
56. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues ...
    
57. Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of t ...
    
58. Nothing of importance is ever achieved without dis ...
    
59. Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly an ...
    
60. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhap ...
    
61. One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is cred ...
    
62. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous brea ...
    
63. One should as a rule respect public opinion in so ...
    
64. Order, unity and continuity are human inventions j ...
    
65. Our great democracies still tend to think that a s ...
    
66. Our instinctive emotions are those that we have in ...
    
67. Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy ...
    
68. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be kille ...
    
69. Patriots always talk of dying for their country an ...
    
70. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a p ...
    
71. Religion is something left over from the infancy o ...
    
72. Science may set limits to knowledge, but should no ...
    
73. Sin is geographical. ...
    
74. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in ...
    
75. The fact that an opinion has been widely held is n ...
    
76. The fundamental defect of fathers is that they wan ...
    
77. The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. ...
    
78. The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating t ...
    
79. The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is acco ...
    
80. The human race may well become extinct before the ...
    
81. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience i ...
    
82. The main thing needed to make men happy is intelli ...
    
83. The main things which seem to me important on thei ...
    
84. The man who suffers from a sense of sin is sufferi ...
    
85. The mind is a strange machine which can combine th ...
    
86. The most savage controversies are those about matt ...
    
87. The only thing that will redeem mankind is coopera ...
    
88. The people who are regarded as moral luminaries ar ...
    
89. The place of the father in the modern suburban fam ...
    
90. The point of philosophy is to start with something ...
    
91. The secret of happiness is this: Let your interest ...
    
92. The thing that I should wish to obtain from money ...
    
93. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ...
    
94. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are ...
    
95. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the se ...
    
96. The whole problem with the world is that fools and ...
    
97. The wise man thinks about his troubles only when t ...
    
98. The world is full of magical things patiently wait ...
    
99. There are two motives for reading a book: one, tha ...
    
100. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless k ...
     
101. There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be m ...
     
102. This is one of those views which are so absolutely ...
     
103. This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to bec ...
     
104. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, ...
     
105. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the la ...
     
106. To be without some of the things you want is an in ...
     
107. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ...
     
108. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear l ...
     
109. Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much ...
     
110. War does not determine who is right - only who is ...
     
111. We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by si ...
     
112. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we ...
     
113. We know very little, and yet it is astonishing tha ...
     
114. What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude ...
     
115. When one admits that nothing is certain one must, ...
     
116. Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done wit ...