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Bertrand Russell

  • Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Ants and savages put strangers to death... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • It [the world] must be a world in which affection has free play, in which love is purged of the instinct for domination, in which cruelty and envy have been dispelled by happiness and the unfettered development of all the instincts that build up life and fill it with mental delights. Such a world is possible; it waits only for men to wish to create it.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • 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.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • 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.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to make it workable... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice... Bertrand Russell {view}