“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
“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 fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
“A man without a bias cannot write interesting history.”
“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.”
“In the good society, people will love the public good.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes :
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.”
“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.”
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists.”
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
“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.”
“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.”
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”
“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
“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.”
“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.”
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
“There is no excuse for deceiving children.”
“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 good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
“I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”