The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
-
-
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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 -
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
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