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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I feel as if one would only discover on one’s death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one’s life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one’s being (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There’s a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
What’s the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one’s happiness would be increased (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years (Bertrand Russell Quotes)