Bertrand Russell Quotes
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.""To be free of fear is the best condition of the human mind.""A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.""Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.""Each of us is in the world for no very long time, and should strive to comprehend at least a part of the world.""The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.""The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, the most admirable of human characteristics.""To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.""It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it.""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 fundamental problem with the human species is an excess.""There is less harm in the crime itself than in the callousness, cruelty, and indifference of most people towards those who commit it.""Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.""Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.""The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.""The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.""The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.""The man who can control his desires and appetites is capable of undertaking the most difficult and noble tasks.""A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relationships.""The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
