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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell
Peace, Lying, Humanity
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.716, Routledge

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Bertrand Russell
Wise, Men, Religion
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.12, Lulu Press, Inc

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

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

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Bertrand Russell
Time, Neglect, Duty
"Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" by Bertrand Russell, 1956.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Action, Surprise
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.39, Routledge

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Hope, Teaching

Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.

Bertrand Russell
Christian, Atheist, Thinking

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell
Dangerous World, Worry, Emotion

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.

Bertrand Russell
Teacher, Character, Science
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.620, Psychology Press

What is matter? Never mind.

Bertrand Russell
Mind, Matter, Spirituality
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.322, Psychology Press

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Bertrand Russell
Punishment, Roots, Evil
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.147, Routledge

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.

Bertrand Russell
Law, Dynamics, Matter

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Bertrand Russell
Second Chance, Found, Has Beens

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Bertrand Russell
Halloween, Men, Anxiety
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.95, Lulu Press, Inc

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

Bertrand Russell
Hate, Mistake, Science

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell
Cynical, Religion, Atheism
Sceptical Essays "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928)

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.

Bertrand Russell
Spiritual, Soul, Quality
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Bertrand Russell
World, Reason, Being True
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.19, Routledge

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Bertrand Russell
Learning, Science, Discovery
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.168, Psychology Press

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Bertrand Russell
Science, May, Ethics

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

Bertrand Russell
Boys, Wish, World
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.32, Routledge

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Bertrand Russell
Mean, Journey, Long
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.41, Routledge

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Discipline, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.380, Psychology Press

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
Nature, Children, Science
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

Bertrand Russell
Men, Feelings, Lust
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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