Bertrand Russell quotes

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
- 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

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.
- Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
- Bertrand Russell

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

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

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.
- Bertrand Russell

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

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love, and faith.
- Bertrand Russell

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

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
- Bertrand Russell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
- Bertrand Russell

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- Bertrand Russell

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
- Bertrand Russell

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
- Bertrand Russell

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
- Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
- Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.
- Bertrand Russell

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand Russell