“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
“There is no excuse for deceiving children.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
“I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.”
“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.”
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists.”
“We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.”
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
“In the good society, people will love the public good.”
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.”
“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.”
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end, the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.”
“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.”
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
“We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes :
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can still do for those who study it.”
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
“A man without a bias cannot write interesting history.”
“Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”