The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of — Bertrand Russell
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose — Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the — Bertrand Russell
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than — Bertrand Russell
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter — Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your — Bertrand Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating — Bertrand Russell
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was — Bertrand Russell
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty — Bertrand Russell
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the — Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet — Bertrand Russell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of — Bertrand Russell
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgement based upon it. — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. — Bertrand Russell
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men — Bertrand Russell
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for — Bertrand Russell
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married — Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of — Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification — Bertrand Russell
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of — Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because — Bertrand Russell
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an — Bertrand Russell
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you — Bertrand Russell
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived — Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not — Bertrand Russell
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced — Bertrand Russell
I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches — Bertrand Russell