207 Quotations by Bertrand Russell
- 41. Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
- 42. For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem ...
- 43. Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal ...
- 44. Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- 45. God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest o ...
- 46. Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
- 47. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
- 48. Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious ...
- 49. I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
- 50. I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on t ...
- 51. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he re ...
- 52. I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ...
- 53. I may have thought the road to a world of free and happy human beings shorter than it is proving to ...
- 54. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the ...
- 55. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish peopl ...
- 56. I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.
- 57. I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for ...
- 58. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no lon ...
- 59. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unle ...
- 60. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to deman ...
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