Bertrand Russell Quotes

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1950, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Birth Name: Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Alternative Names: Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell • Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell • Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell • Russell

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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

هناك دافعان لقراءة كتاب ما: الأول هو الاستمتاع به، والثاني هو التباهي بقراءته.

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race — I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

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.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.