Quotes by Bertrand Russell

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”

“In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man shoul...”

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

“Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.”

“It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our rela...”

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

“Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.”

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”

“Yo no nac dichoso. De nio, mi himno favorito era: Cansado del mundo y con el peso de mis pecados. A los cinco aos yo pensaba que si haba de vivir setenta no haba pasado an ms que la catorceava part...”

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

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

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by whic...”