207 Quotations by Bertrand Russell
- 81. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- 82. Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha ...
- 83. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he ...
- 84. Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ch ...
- 85. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ...
- 86. Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
- 87. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure ...
- 88. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure ...
- 89. Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet ...
- 90. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and auster ...
- 91. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- 92. Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Th ...
- 93. Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- 94. Most people would rather die than think: many do.
- 95. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- 96. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i ...
- 97. Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which morali ...
- 98. No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
- 99. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- 100. No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird ...
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