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.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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.
