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When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

Bertrand Russell
Age, Able, Should

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell
Advice, Age, Would Be

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Bertrand Russell
Passion, Age, World
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.149, Routledge

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Bertrand Russell
Hope, Creativity, Age
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Age, Prudes
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Bertrand Russell
Inspiration, Age, Genius

The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Wish, Age
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.34, Routledge

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

Bertrand Russell
Brother, Science, Age
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

Bertrand Russell
Butterfly, Age, Nero
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.459, Psychology Press

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Race, Age
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.11, Routledge

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Law, Age
'Mysticism and Logic' (1919)

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Bertrand Russell
Small Numbers, Progress, Age
Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.112, Psychology Press

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell
Birthday, Age, Dams
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Age, Praise
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.73, Routledge

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell
Discovery, Mathematical Logic, Age
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Principles of Mathematics”, p.5, Routledge

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Bertrand Russell
Discovery, Achievement, Age
Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (1985). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and action, 1902-14”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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