The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 69
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 8
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 8
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 6
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 6
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
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. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 2
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1