Life Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

— Bertrand Russell

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

— Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life…

— Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

— Bertrand Russell

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

— Bertrand Russell

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

— Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

— Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

— Bertrand Russell

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

— Bertrand Russell

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

— Bertrand Russell

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain…

— Bertrand Russell

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

— Bertrand Russell

“Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.”

— Bertrand Russell

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles…

— Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into…

— Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good…

— Bertrand Russell

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence,…

— Bertrand Russell

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as…

— Bertrand Russell

“Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions…

— Bertrand Russell

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable…

— Bertrand Russell

“I must, I must before I die find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have…

— Bertrand Russell

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said…

— Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest…

— Bertrand Russell

“The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect…

— Bertrand Russell

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire…

— Bertrand Russell

“Life cannot remain tolerable unless we learn to let each other alone in all matters that are not of immediate and obvious…

— Bertrand Russell

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I…

— Bertrand Russell

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we…

— Bertrand Russell

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a…

— Bertrand Russell

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than…

— Bertrand Russell

“But even when a man has offended against his own rational code, I doubt whether a sense of sin is the best…

— Bertrand Russell

“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this…

— Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end…

— Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered…

— Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

— Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

— Bertrand Russell