Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
-
-
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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 -
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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 -
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
BERTRAND RUSSELL -
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
BERTRAND RUSSELL