Bertrand Russell Quotes

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell
Talking About Exact Thinking In Philosophy

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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