More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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.
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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
