Author Topic: ~ Bertrand Russell Quotes ~ (Read 8569 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:43:08 AM »

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:43:42 AM »

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:44:20 AM »

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:44:51 AM »

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:45:28 AM »

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:46:02 AM »

Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:46:38 AM »

Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:47:13 AM »

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:47:49 AM »

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:48:27 AM »

Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:49:07 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:49:55 AM »

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it they remain barren.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:50:38 AM »

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:51:17 AM »

It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:51:53 AM »

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

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