Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and mathematician

Lived from: 1872 - 1970

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 may 1872 Died: 2 february 1970

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  • Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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  • Most people would rather die than think: many do.
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  • Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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  • Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
    Human Society in Ethics and Politics
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  • Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
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  • Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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  • Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
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  • No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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  • No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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  • Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
    The conquest of happiness
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  • Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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  • Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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  • One must care about a world one will not see.
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  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
    The Conquest of Happiness
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  • One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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  • Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
    The Scientific Outlook
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  • Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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  • Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
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  • Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
    Has Man a Future? (1962)
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