No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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 RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
BERTRAND RUSSELL