“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell.
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell.
“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
– Bertrand Russell.
“Freedom is the greatest of political goods.” —Bertrand Russell, philosopher.
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” — Bertrand Russell.
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
—Bertrand Russell.
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell.
“I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.”
—Bertrand Russell.
“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.”
—Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals.
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
Bertrand Russell.
“Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”
~Bertrand Russell.
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and produces ferocity toward those not regarded as members of the herd.”
~Bertrand Russell.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
~Bertrand Russell
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ”
Bertrand Russell
The late F.W.H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but on being pressed, replied: “Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn’t talk about such unpleasant subjects.” –Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
—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.
– Bertrand Russell.
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ”
—Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. – Bertrand Russell
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970).
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. –Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
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“…a business or stock is not an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What’s required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell‘s observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: ‘Most men would rather die than think. Many do.” – Warren Buffett