Bertrand Russell quotes was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic Born: 05/18/1872 Died: 02/02/1970 Country: united_kingdom

• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell) [problem/people]
• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell) [life/love/knowledge]
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/opinion/opinion]
• Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. (Bertrand Russell) [punishment]
• War does not determine who is right - only who is left. (Bertrand Russell) [war/right]
• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Bertrand Russell) [religion/civilization & progress]
• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell) [time/time]
• What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. (Bertrand Russell) [men/knowledge]
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. (Bertrand Russell) [love/happiness]
• To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. (Bertrand Russell) [people/happiness]
• My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. (Bertrand Russell) [religion]
• 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) [men/power/power]
• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. (Bertrand Russell) [people/think]
• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. (Bertrand Russell) [collectivism/fear/instinct]
• 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) [willpower/courage/willpower/courage]
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/source/superstition/fear]
• There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. (Bertrand Russell) [reading]
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/love/fear/life]
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. (Bertrand Russell) [love/happiness]
• All human activity is prompted by desire. (Bertrand Russell) [human/activity/desire]
• All movements go too far. (Bertrand Russell)
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. (Bertrand Russell) [willpower/bad]
• There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship. (Bertrand Russell) [willpower/willpower/art/literature]
• We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. (Bertrand Russell) [life]
• 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) [relations/people/wish]
• Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. (Bertrand Russell) [people]
• Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. (Bertrand Russell) [boredom]
• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Bertrand Russell) [boredom/problem/mankind/fear]
• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. (Bertrand Russell) [thing/willpower/mankind/cooperation]
• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. (Bertrand Russell) [eloquence/democracy]
• What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. (Bertrand Russell) [men/knowledge]

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