More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
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.
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.
