Author: Bertrand Russell

Quotes

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

- Bertrand Russell

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.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

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

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

- Bertrand Russell

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.

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

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

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

- Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

- Bertrand Russell

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

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

- Bertrand Russell

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