Bertrand Russell Quotes

"Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man."

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."

"Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly."

"In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation"

"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected."

"The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind."

"Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead"

"The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women."

"Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice"

"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things"

"A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known."

"Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true"

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true"

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

"One must care about a world one will not see."

"Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good"

"What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life"

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

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

"Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love"