Author Topic: ~ Bertrand Russell Quotes ~ (Read 3830 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:52:43 AM »

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:53:23 AM »

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:53:59 AM »

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:54:36 AM »

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:55:10 AM »

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:55:42 AM »

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:56:17 AM »

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:56:48 AM »

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:57:24 AM »

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:57:56 AM »

To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:58:28 AM »

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:59:01 AM »

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:59:33 AM »

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** January 16, 2014, 12:00:03 PM »

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** January 16, 2014, 12:00:32 PM »

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

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