More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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.
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.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
