207 Quotations by Bertrand Russell
- 101. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- 102. Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
- 103. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
- 104. Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- 105. Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- 106. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- 107. One must care about a world one will never see.
- 108. One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly impor ...
- 109. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly im ...
- 110. One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to kee ...
- 111. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison ...
- 112. Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
- 113. Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this d ...
- 114. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve ...
- 115. Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and cont ...
- 116. Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of ...
- 117. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- 118. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- 119. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss ...
- 120. Real life is, to most men... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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