Bertrand Russell quotes
Born
18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, England.
Died
2 February 1970.
Occupation
Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer.
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures of 20th-century analytic philosophy and is well known for his contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
– Bertrand Russell
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
– Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
– Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
– Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
– Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
– Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
– Bertrand Russell
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
– Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
– Bertrand Russell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
– Bertrand Russell
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
– Bertrand Russell
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
– Bertrand Russell
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
– Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
– Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
– Bertrand Russell
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.
– Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.- Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
– Bertrand Russell
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
– Bertrand Russell
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
– Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
– Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
– Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell