Bertrand Russell Quotes - Page 3

• The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Reality, Keys, Accepting

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• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Fear, Philosophy

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Knowledge, Parenting

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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  Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Belief, Belief Systems, Programmes

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Successful, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

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  Enemy, Satan, Figures

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Teamwork, Collaboration

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Philosophy, Humanity

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.565, Routledge

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• Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Causes, Unhappiness

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

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  Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Bernd Frohmann (1988). “Essays on language, mind, and matter, 1919-26”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Men, Needed

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• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Support, Intelligence

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Useless, Pleasure

  "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: 'Useless' Knowledge, 1935.

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• Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

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  Believe, Men, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.88, Psychology Press

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• No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Perseverance, Persistence, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.106, Routledge

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• Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

  Bertrand Russell

  Errors, Commit, Repeats

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• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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  Funny, Life, Competition

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

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  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.181, Routledge

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• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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  Respect, Humor, Public Opinion

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Matter

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Realizing, Gates

  Bertrand Russell (1981). “Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield

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