Bertrand Russell 17 Cracking Quotes

Bertrand Russell 17 Cracking Quotese

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

— Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

— 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

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

— 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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

— Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

— Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

— Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

— 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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

— Bertrand Russell

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