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Bertrand Russell Quotes
British
-
Philosopher
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell
Feeling
More
Propaganda
Hatred
Friendly
Much
Stir
Successful
Than
Tries
Up
Why
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
World
Stupid
Doubt
Trouble
Full
Intelligent
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
You
Time
Enjoy
Wasted
Wasted Time
Wasting
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell
Man
Intellectual
Certainty
Which
Demand
Natural
Nevertheless
Vice
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge
Useless
Pleasure
Much
Gained
Useless Knowledge
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Love
Fear
Love Is
Dead
Parts
Those
Three
Who
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics
Only
Must
Us
Absolute
Absolute Necessity
Actual
Conform
Every
Necessity
Possible
Region
Takes
Which
Word
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Man
Poetry
Mathematics
Excellence
Being
Delight
Exaltation
Found
Highest
More
Sense
Spirit
Surely
Than
Touchstone
True
True Spirit
Which
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
War
Who
Only
Right
Left
Determine
Does
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Education
Stupid
Men
Born
Ignorant
Made
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
People
Die
Think
Most
Fact
In Fact
Sooner
Than
Would
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Work
Important
Belief
Nervous
Approaching
Breakdown
Nervous Breakdown
Symptoms
Terribly
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
You
Things
Want
Some
Indispensable
Part
Without
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Nature
Happiness
Time
Feel
Convinced
Discovery
Every
Every Time
Gardener
Longer
Made
Odd
Opposite
Possibility
Quite
Sure
Talk
I Feel
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.
Bertrand Russell
Time
Men
Equality
America
Admit
Doctrine
Does
Equal
Everybody
He
Inferiors
Jefferson
Only
Onward
Opinion
Since
Social
Upwards
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell
May
Universe
Purpose
Nothing
Any
Know
Ours
Similarity
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell
Love
God
Mathematics
Universe
Accidental
Because
Human
Like
Nothing
Particular
Planet
Return
Spinoza
Us
Whole
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism
Willingness
Reasons
Trivial
Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell
Sin
Geographical
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell
Stone
Physics
He
Himself
Believed
Effects
Observer
Observing
Really
Seems
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
Simple
Believe
Will
End
Paradoxical
Philosophy
Point
Seem
Something
Start
Stating
Worth
No-One
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 a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
Today
Happiness
World
People
Any
Could
Desired
Few
Large
Large Number
More
Number
Others
Own
Paradise
Than
Unhappiness
Were
Years
Who
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell
Unity
Human
Just
Continuity
Inventions
Order
Truly
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
Life
Love
Knowledge
Simple
Governed
Longing
Mankind
My Life
Passions
Pity
Search
Strong
Suffering
Three
Unbearable
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.
Bertrand Russell
You
Long
Things
Now And Then
Affairs
Granted
Hang
Healthy
Healthy Thing
Mark
Now
Question
Question Mark
Taken
Taken For Granted
Then
Thing
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Opinion
Whatever
Evidence
Absurd
Been
Fact
Held
Utterly
Widely
Has-Been
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Inspirational
Waiting
World
Grow
Our
Full
Magical
Patiently
Sharper
Things
Wits
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
People
Criticism
Because
Departure
Convention
Conventional
Fury
Largely
Regard
Themselves
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell
Heart
Pain
Start
Coward
Bear
Below
Equal
Ever
First
Foe
Hand
Slightest
Torture
Whose
Wretch
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell
Fear
Never
He
Coward
Boast
Dares
Known
None
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom
Government
Opinion
Only
Exist
Itself
Secure
Thinks
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
Hope
Change
Happiness
Man
Enjoyment
Enterprise
His
Man Needs
Needs
Only
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Power
Hatred
Idealism
Passes
Disguised
Much
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Religions
Insight
Our
Been
Brotherly
Destruction
Excuse
Made
Mass
Mass Destruction
Means
Persecution
Profoundest
Scientific
Teach
Used
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell
Good
Time
People
Food
Believe
Boxes
Fists
Good Food
Good Time
Honesty
Knowing
Living
Outrage
Sex
Street
Using
Words
I Believe
I Believe In
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell
Beautiful
Matter
Singing
Real
Asking
Been
Chimney
Does
Hoot
Mockingbird
Proper
Question
Usual
Why
Wrong
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
World
People
Always
Fools
Certain
Doubts
Fanatics
Full
Problem
Themselves
Whole
Wiser
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.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
You
Secret
Your
As Far As
Far
Friendly
Hostile
Interest
Interests
Persons
Possible
Rather
Reactions
Than
The Secret Of
Things
Wide
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
More
Living
Us
Anything
Anything Else
Else
Freely
More Than Anything
Nobly
Possessions
Preoccupation
Prevents
Than
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Fear
Beginning
Conquer
Cruelty
Main
Main Source
Source
Sources
Superstition
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
Science
You
Know
Philosophy
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
Intelligence
Remember
Praise
I Can
Far
Gospels
One Word
Word
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
Mind
Discipline
Right
Lead
Activities
Compulsion
Consists
Desirable
External
Habits
Rather
Spontaneously
Than
Undesirable
Which
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
Fate
Which
Form
Seems
Destroys
Idealists
Ideals
Obtain
Struggled
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Respect
Tyranny
Opinion
Prison
Anything
Avoid
Beyond
Goes
Insofar
Keep
Necessary
Out
Public
Public Opinion
Should
Starvation
Submission
Unnecessary
Voluntary
All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell
Go
Far
Too
Movements
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge
Facts
Emotions
Degree
Inversely
Varies
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Fear
Beginning
Conquer
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
People
Believe
Think
Always
Any
Doubt
Entertain
Even
Measure
Mine
Opinions
Ought
Our
Philosophy
Some
Wish
I Think
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Fear
Opinion
Now
Once
Accepted
Eccentric
Every
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