Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear…

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge…

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work…

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time…

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the…

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children…

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it…

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their…

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons…

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the…

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a…

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been…

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact…

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three…

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering…