Bertrand Russell Quotes.
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
