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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Written by Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Written by Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Written by Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Written by Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Written by Bertrand Russell
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.
Written by Bertrand Russell
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Written by Bertrand Russell
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Sin is geographical.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Written by Bertrand Russell
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.
Written by Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Written by Bertrand Russell
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.
Written by Bertrand Russell
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Written by Bertrand Russell
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Written by Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Written by Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Written by Bertrand Russell

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