Bertrand Russell

The camera is as subjective as we are.

— Bertrand Russell

“Clarity, above all, has been my aim.”

— Bertrand Russell

It's coexistence or no existence.

— Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

— Bertrand Russell

If today were a fish I'd throw it back

— Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.

— Bertrand Russell

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

— Bertrand Russell

Choose your parents wisely.

— Bertrand Russell

“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

— Bertrand Russell

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

— Bertrand Russell

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

— Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

— Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

— Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

— Bertrand Russell

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

— 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

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive…

— 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

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers…

— Bertrand Russell

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only…

— Bertrand Russell

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a…

— Bertrand Russell

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and…

— Bertrand Russell

Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a…

— Bertrand Russell

“Some of the deepest truths are simple, when seen in the clearest light, and it takes a lucid intellect to grasp them…

— Bertrand Russell

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to…

— Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,…

— Bertrand Russell

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the…

— Bertrand Russell

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Great ages and great individuals have arisen from the breakdown of a rigid system: the rigid system has given the necessary discipline…

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— 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

“Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part…

— Bertrand Russell

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration…

— Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself…

— Bertrand Russell