No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIf 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 RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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 RUSSELLConquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELL