You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Certain things are indispensable to the happiness of most men, but these are simple things: food and shelter, health, love, successful work… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
