More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.