More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
