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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.
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.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
