black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

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

Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Man Philosophy
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Energy Fundamental Power Science
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
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

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

Deep Existence Language Possible
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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
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
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

Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Oneself Virtue
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Happiness Hate People Person

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertrand Russell Quotes