More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
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.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
