More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
