Quotes Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each o...

I've made an odd discovery.  Every time I talk to...

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indisp...

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

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdow...

I've made an odd discovery.  Every time I talk to...

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ...

Those who fear life are already three parts dead. ...

We have two kinds of morality side by side:  one ...

We have two kinds of morality side by side:  one ...

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

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."...

"What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is a...

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never ac...

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion n...

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

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to ac...

"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid...

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

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life...

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's kn...

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

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gosp...

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercour...