More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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.
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.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
