Quotes
Quotes - Russell
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
