... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children. — 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
“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. — 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
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But even when a man has offended against his own rational code, I doubt whether a sense of sin is the best… — 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
“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
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — 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
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else. — 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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