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| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Drunkenness is temporary suicide. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| All movements go too far. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Most people would rather die than think: many do. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| All human activity is prompted by desire. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| 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. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| 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 | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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