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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
— Bertrand Russell
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
— Bertrand Piccard
One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
— Bertrand Russell
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
— Bertrand Russell
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
— Bertrand Russell
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
— Bertrand Russell
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
— Bertrand Russell
Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.
— Bertrand Russell
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
— Bertrand Russell
The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
— Bertrand Russell
Only six need be attempted.
— Bertrand Russell
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
— Bertrand Russell
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
— Bertrand Russell
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
— Bertrand Russell
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
— Bertrand Piccard
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
— Bertrand Russell
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
— Bertrand Russell
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
— Bertrand Russell
adversity doesn't equal failure. It equals opportunity.
— Erik Bertrand Larssen
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
— Bertrand Russell
Dont let the old break you; let the love make you
— Bertrand Russell
In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.
— Bertrand Russell
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
— Bertrand Russell
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
— Bertrand Russell
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
— Bertrand Russell
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.
— Bertrand Russell
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
— Bertrand Russell
It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
— Bertrand Russell
Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
— Bertrand Russell
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
— Bertrand Russell
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
— Sidney Hook
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
— Bertrand Russell
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
— Bertrand Russell
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
It must be admitted, however, that life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.
— Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell
Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
— Bertrand Russell
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
— Bertrand Russell
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
— Bertrand Russell
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
It's coexistence or no existence.
— Bertrand Russell
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
— Bertrand Russell
When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.
— Bertrand Russell
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
— Bertrand Russell
I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.
— Bertrand Russell
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
— Bertrand Russell
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty ... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
— Bertrand Russell
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
— Bertrand Russell
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
— Bertrand Russell
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.
— Bertrand Russell
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
— Bertrand Russell
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
— Bertrand Russell
Shakespeare ... If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
— Bertrand Russell
Man can be scientifically manipulated.
— Bertrand Russell
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
— Bertrand Russell
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
— Bertrand Russell
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?
— Bertrand Russell
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
— Bertrand Russell
One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
— Bertrand Russell
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
— Bertrand Russell
Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
— Bertrand Russell
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others
— Bertrand Russell
The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
— Bertrand Russell
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
— Bertrand Russell
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
— Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
— Bertrand Russell
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
— Bertrand Russell
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
— Bertrand Russell
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God ...
— Bertrand Russell
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
— Bertrand Russell
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
— Bertrand Russell
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
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
— Bertrand Russell
A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end ... let us make the best of it.
— Bertrand Russell
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.
— Bertrand Russell
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
— Bertrand Russell
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.
— Bertrand Russell
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
— Bertrand Russell
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
— Bertrand Russell
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.
— Bertrand Russell
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.
— Bertrand Russell
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
— Bertrand Barere
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
— Bertrand Russell
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.
— Bertrand Russell
Beware the man of the single book
— Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
— Bertrand Russell
