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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.


If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.


Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.


Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.


I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Love Quotes

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.


What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.


In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.


Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.


Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.


The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Friendship Quotes

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.

Love Quotes

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.


Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.