More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
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.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
