Quotes
Quotes - Russell
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
