79 quotes by Bertrand Russell

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Bertrand Russell

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“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.” — Bertrand Russell

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“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.” — Bertrand Russell

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“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” — Bertrand Russell

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.” — Bertrand Russell

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