More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
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.
