More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
