Bertrand Russell Quotes

Bertrand Russell Quotes.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispe

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell