Bertrand Russell Quotes, Thoughts and images

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

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

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

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Belief systems provide a programme that relieves the necessity of thought.

Beware the man of the single book

It is the things for which no evidence is believed with passion.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

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

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

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favours exploitation.

Every great idea starts as a blasphemy.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.