Bertrand Russell
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by Bertrand Russell:
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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” -Bertrand Russell
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” -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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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.” -Bertrand Russell
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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” -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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“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” -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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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” -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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“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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“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” -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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“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” -Bertrand Russell
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“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.” -Bertrand Russell
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“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” -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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“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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“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 slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” -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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“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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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.” -Bertrand Russell
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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