black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Energy Fundamental Power Science
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Endurance Philosophy Willing World
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

People Secret Virtue
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Fear Mad Philosophy
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Fear Hands Religion
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

Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Death Happiness Love True
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Enemy Quite Religion World
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Born Hope Misery
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Knowledge Philosophy
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertrand Russell Quotes