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

"The man who can control his desires and appetites is capable of undertaking the most difficult and noble tasks.""A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relationships.""The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.""A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfactory, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.""To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.""The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.""It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice.""The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.""There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.""The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.""To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.""The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.""In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted""The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way""Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit""To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom""One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny""Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so""Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse""Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame"

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