Bertrand Russell Quotes
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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It's not the experience that happens to you: it's what you do with the experience that happens to you.
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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Friends,
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Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization.
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The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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One must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
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If the Communists conquered the world, it would be very unpleasant for a while, but not forever. But if the human race is wiped out, that is the end.
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What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.