Quotes Bertrand Russell

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous i...

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it ...

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a...

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the p...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal ...

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturin...

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stat...

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred...

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief tha...

All movements go too far....

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from e...

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness....

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that wo...

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; a...

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universa...

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least ...

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half t...

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to...

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produ...

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people'...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from con...

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'...

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion no...

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute phil...

Drunkenness is temporary suicide....