To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
-
-
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
A 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 -
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 -
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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 -
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL