Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPolitics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
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 RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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 RUSSELL