black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Existence Language Possible
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Himself Man Marriage Woman
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

Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

End Let Go Life
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Born Hope Misery
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Oneself Virtue
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Feeling Happiness Live
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Kill Patriotism Willing
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Evidence Goodness Savage
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Decision Deep Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Man Philosophy
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Forget Humanity Remember Yourself

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertrand Russell Quotes