~ Bertrand Russell Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

[MysteRy]

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

[MysteRy]

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

[MysteRy]

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

[MysteRy]

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

[MysteRy]

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

[MysteRy]

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

[MysteRy]

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

[MysteRy]

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

[MysteRy]

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

[MysteRy]

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

[MysteRy]

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

[MysteRy]

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

[MysteRy]

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

[MysteRy]

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.