Bertrand Russell

(393 votes)   Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(378 votes)   We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(304 votes)   The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(295 votes)   No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(221 votes)   All human activity is prompted by desire.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(214 votes)   Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(213 votes)   There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(211 votes)   Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(185 votes)   The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(177 votes)   Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(174 votes)   Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(157 votes)   An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(157 votes)   There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(156 votes)   One must care about a world one will not see.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(154 votes)   We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Bertrand Russell

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