Add some inspiration to your day with some phenomenal quotes from Bertrand Russell; incisively articulating the human condition with all it's promises and pitfalls.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education"
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation"
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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
The final three quotes served as inspiration for my username
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.
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.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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