Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Bertrand Russell quotes, Bertrand Russell sayings, and Bertrand Russell proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
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
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The camera is as subjective as we are.Bertrand Russell
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As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.Bertrand Russell
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.Bertrand Russell
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.Bertrand Russell
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell
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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
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There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.Bertrand Russell
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The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.Bertrand Russell
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Organizing your leisure effectively is the highest level of civilization.Bertrand Russell
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.Bertrand Russell
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Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.Bertrand Russell
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.Bertrand Russell
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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.Bertrand Russell
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Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.Bertrand Russell
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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents.Bertrand Russell
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.Bertrand Russell
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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.Bertrand Russell
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?Bertrand Russell
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All forms of fear produce fatigue. Bertrand Russell
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The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.Bertrand Russell
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Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capableBertrand Russell
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.Bertrand Russell
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.Bertrand Russell
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The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense.Bertrand Russell
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. Bertrand Russell
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
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It's 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 Russell
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Bertrand Russell
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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