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 fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them""It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true""Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom can be a fatal condition, and skydiving may be as an antidote""Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure""The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself""I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong""It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly""No great achievement is possible without persistent work""Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality""We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach""Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness""Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so""Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines""No one gossips about other people's secret virtues""One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important""The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt""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""Love is something 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""To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.""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."

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