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There are 95 quotes for the author Bertrand Russell

Quotations 61 to 80 of 95 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Sin is geographical.

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