“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce… — 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
The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Life cannot remain tolerable unless we learn to let each other alone in all matters that are not of immediate and obvious… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called "idealists"—a word which has a different meaning… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase… — 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 Image
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 Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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