Bertrand Russell

"This has been my life; I found it worth living."

- Bertrand Russell

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

- Bertrand Russell

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

- Bertrand Russell

"Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge in order to find out how to benefit those whom they love. But if people are not intelligent, they will be content to believe what they have been told and may do harm in spite of the most genuine benevolence."

- Bertrand Russell

"“This has been my life; I found it worth living.”"

- Bertrand Russell

"Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

"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 a paradise in a few years."

- Bertrand Russell

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."

- Bertrand Russell

"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."

- Bertrand Russell

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

- Bertrand Russell

"“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”"

- Bertrand Russell

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

- Bertrand Russell

"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."

- Bertrand Russell

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

- Bertrand Russell

"If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

- Bertrand Russell

""To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.""

- Bertrand Russell

"Science is what we know and philosophy what we don't."

- Bertrand Russell

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

- Bertrand Russell

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

- Bertrand Russell

"“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”"

- Bertrand Russell

"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what state of starvation will you prefer the grain to a vote?"

- Bertrand Russell

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

- Bertrand Russell