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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
