Quotes Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything els...

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they hav...

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suf...

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right t...

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather ...

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercours...

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and value...

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in th...

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this...

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will ...

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven o...

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

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and ...

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never ...

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, ...

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by e...

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always pr...

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so...

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguise...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act...

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consi...

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues....

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does...

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fea...

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and igno...