More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
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.
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.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
