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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. P. 18 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. P. 108 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet (Bertrand Russell Quotes)