More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
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.
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.
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.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
