Quotes By Bertrand Russell

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

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.