“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
~ Bertrand Russell
A little of this. A little of that.
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“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
Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
“An honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid … because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
~ Bertrand Russell
The idea that the poor should have
leisure has always been shocking
to the rich.
Bertrand Russell, In praise of
Idleness and other essays
There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
– Bertrand Russell
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said ‘What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.’ The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, ‘What is the turtle standing on’ ‘You’re very clever, young man, very clever,’ said the little old lady. ‘But it’s turtles all the way down.’
– Stephen William Hawking
“It is 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
The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent
full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ”
–Bertrand Russel
The only thing that will redeem
mankind is cooperation.
— Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in
opinion, for every opinion now
accepted was once eccentric.
— Bertrand Russell
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
– Bertrand Russell
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
–Bertrand Russell