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Bertrand Russell Quotes about Discipline

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The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Bertrand Russell
Discipline, Desire, Needs
Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Bertrand Russell
Iron, Discipline, Creative
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.12, Psychology Press

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

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell
Discipline, Mind, Willpower
Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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