More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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 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.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
