Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA 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 RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELL