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 "Unpopular Essays"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Bertrand Russell

Health and Alcohol

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."

Bertrand Russell

Courage and Fear

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

Bertrand Russell

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell "The Conquest of Happiness"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

Bertrand Russell

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Bertrand Russell

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Bertrand Russell "Conquest of Happiness"

Happiness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Bertrand Russell "Philosophical Essays"

Beauty and Ugliness

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Envy is the basis of democracy."

Bertrand Russell "Conquest of Happiness"

Envy

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Bertrand Russell

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

Bertrand Russell "Sceptical Essays"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."

Bertrand Russell

Life and Death

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. "

Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

Bertrand Russell

Happiness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Bertrand Russell "Marriage and Morals"

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Bertrand Russell "Unpopular Essays"

Human

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

Bertrand Russell

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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."

Bertrand Russell

Love

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

Bertrand Russell

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "

Bertrand Russell

Joy and Sadness

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

Bertrand Russell

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life."

Bertrand Russell "Unpopular Essays"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

Bertrand Russell "Mysticism and Logic"

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Science seems to be at war with itself. Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false. "

Bertrand Russell

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

Bertrand Russell "What I Believe"

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Love

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

Bertrand Russell

Peace and War

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy"

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)