To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just around the corner.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since […]
These two (nationalism and Christianity), when taken seriously, are incompatible… For my part I hold that, where they differ, Christianity is preferable, but where they agree, both are mistaken.
