Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Bertrand Russell quotes, Bertrand Russell sayings, and Bertrand Russell proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
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Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justiceBertrand Russell
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.Bertrand Russell
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One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.Bertrand Russell
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.Bertrand Russell
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
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One must care about a world one will never see.Bertrand Russell
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The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.Bertrand Russell
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Most people would sooner die than start to think. In fact - they do so.Bertrand Russell
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No great achievement is possible without persistent work.Bertrand Russell
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.Bertrand Russell
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.Bertrand Russell
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.Bertrand Russell
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.Bertrand Russell
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.Bertrand Russell
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.Bertrand Russell
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.Bertrand Russell
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.Bertrand Russell
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Bertrand Russell
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.Bertrand Russell