Bertrand Russell quotes - page 2

All movements go too far. (Bertrand Russell)
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.
Bertrand Russell
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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 a paradise in a few years.
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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.
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Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. (Bertrand Russell)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
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)
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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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.
Bertrand Russell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell