Best Bertrand Russell Lines
- Envy is the basis of democracy. Bases
- Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. Correctness
- William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but… Came
- The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we… Accompanied
- Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its… Asks
- Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting… Comforting
- Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. Civic
- This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. Absolutely
- RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are… Authoritarian
- HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. Cooks
- No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed. Been
- I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is… Almost Anything
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be… Able
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles… Automobile
- Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives… Consolation
- Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. Bad
- Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. Folly
- There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents… Anniversary
- People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true. Affirmation
- Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. Chief
- We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bit
- The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from… All
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and… Afraid
- Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. Branches
- Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. Engagement
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