Bertrand Russell on Love & Romance
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Bertrand Russell on Doubt
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell on Work
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell on Wisdom
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell on Patriotism
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell on Parents
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell on Mathematics
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell on Mankind
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell on Fear
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell on Belief
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.