More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
