Bertrand Russell
43 quotations
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
One must care about a world one will not see.
Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.
Sin is geographical.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
All movements go too far.
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.