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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  • There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
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  • There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
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  • This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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  • 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.
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  • Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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  • Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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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.
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  • To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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  • To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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  • To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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  • To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
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  • To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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  • To one, science is an exalted goddess, to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
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  • Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
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  • War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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  • War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
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  • We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
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  • We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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  • What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
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