A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
-
-
One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
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 -
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELL







