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