More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
