Best Bertrand Russell Proverbs
- I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. Acceptance
- Indemnity for the past and security for the future. Future
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to… Activities
- A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. Belief
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we… Been
- Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. Absolute
- Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of… Arithmetic
- A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. All
- To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. Create
- I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and… God
- The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms Charity
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,… Been
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… Age
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… Any
- If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what… Bourgeois
- A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime. Flash
- The more you complain the longer God lets you live Christian
- He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life,… All
- It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts. Counts
- To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it. Achieved
- The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved. Achieved
- To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. Able
- Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious. Assertion
- For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy Among
- There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may… Aquinas
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