Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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 RUSSELLEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLanguage serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLYour writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELL