Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
Bertrand Russell
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
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.
Bertrand Russell
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
Bertrand Russell
The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell
We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
Bertrand Russell
Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Bertrand Russell
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.
Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Now and then, hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
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