Bertrand Russell Quotes

Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and soc... more Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and social critic. He is best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Throughout his career, Russell wrote extensively on a wide range of subjects, championing social reform, education, and peace, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. less

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.""The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves.""The fundamental reason why the rationalist argument fails is that it presupposes a pleasure which does not exist.""Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.""It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.""To be free of fear is the best condition of the human mind.""A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.""Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.""Each of us is in the world for no very long time, and should strive to comprehend at least a part of the world.""The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.""The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, the most admirable of human characteristics.""To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.""It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it.""The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.""The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess.""There is less harm in the crime itself than in the callousness, cruelty, and indifference of most people towards those who commit it.""Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.""Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.""The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.""The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt."

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