More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
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.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
