Bertrand Russell Quotes
+1Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
- Bertrand Russell
+1A happy life must be o great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
+1To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
+1One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
+1What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.
- Bertrand Russell
+1It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
- Bertrand Russell
+1To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
+1We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
- Bertrand Russell
+1There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- Bertrand Russell
+1One must care about a world one will not see.
- Bertrand Russell
+1Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
+1We 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
+1The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Bertrand Russell