black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Happiness Man Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Mistake Science
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Myself Philosophy Thinking
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

Endurance Patience People Relationship
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Intelligence World
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Company Happiness Life Love
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

Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Death Happiness Love True
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Freedom 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

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertrand Russell Quotes