Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell popularly known as Bertrand Russell was born at Ravenscroft, Trelleck in Wales on 18th May, 1872. His father Amberley was a Viscount and mother Katherine was the daughter of Stanley, second Baron of Alderley. At the mere age of three his mother died from diphtheria and the very next year his father died of bronchitis and depression. Though his father had wanted him to be educated and brought up as an agnostic, his grandmother made him a ward of Court and was Read More...
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.- Bertrand Russell
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
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.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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.
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