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Famous Bertrand Russell Quotes
“Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents”
“Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone”
“Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.”
“Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?”
“Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.”
“Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.”
“The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.”
“Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.”
“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”
“I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.”
“Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.”
“Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity”
“Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.”
“There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.”
“The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.”
“Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.”
“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?”
“I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
“Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”
“I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.”